diff --git a/sample.py b/sample.py
index b68296a..e245efc 100644
--- a/sample.py
+++ b/sample.py
@@ -6,33 +6,45 @@ import torch
 import tiktoken
 from model import GPTConfig, GPT
 
+# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# todo make these overridable like in train.py
+out_dir = 'out'
 device = 'cuda:2'
-torch.manual_seed(1337)
+compile = False
+start = "\n" # or "<|endoftext|>" or whatever you like
+num_samples = 10 # number of samples to draw
+max_new_tokens = 500 # number of tokens generated in each sample
+temperature = 0.8 # higher temperature (up to 1) is more random, lower (down to 0) means more greedy
+top_k = 200 # retain only the top_k most likely tokens, clamp others to have 0 probability
+seed = 1337
+# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+torch.manual_seed(seed)
+torch.cuda.manual_seed(seed)
 torch.backends.cuda.matmul.allow_tf32 = True # allow tf32 on matmul
 torch.backends.cudnn.allow_tf32 = True # allow tf32 on cudnn
 
-out_dir = 'out'
+# model
 ckpt_path = os.path.join(out_dir, 'ckpt.pt')
 checkpoint = torch.load(ckpt_path, map_location=device)
-
-# model
 gptconf = GPTConfig(**checkpoint['model_args'])
 model = GPT(gptconf)
 model.load_state_dict(checkpoint['model'])
 model.eval()
 model.to(device)
-#model = torch.compile(model) # requires PyTorch 2.0 (optional)
+if compile:
+    model = torch.compile(model) # requires PyTorch 2.0 (optional)
 
+# encode the beginning of the prompt
 enc = tiktoken.get_encoding("gpt2")
-start = enc.encode("\n") # user choice on what token to start with
-#start = [enc.eot_token]
-x = (torch.tensor(start, dtype=torch.long, device=device)[None, ...])
+start_ids = enc.encode(start, allowed_special={"<|endoftext|>"})
+x = (torch.tensor(start_ids, dtype=torch.long, device=device)[None, ...])
 
-for k in range(10):
+for k in range(num_samples):
 
     with torch.no_grad():
         with torch.amp.autocast(device_type="cuda", dtype=torch.bfloat16):
-            y = model.generate(x, 500, temperature=0.8, top_k=200)
+            y = model.generate(x, max_new_tokens, temperature=temperature, top_k=top_k)
 
     print(enc.decode(y[0].tolist()))
     print('---------------')