turn topp 0.9 back on by default thanks to recent PR contributions truncating before quicksort

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 There is also an even better 110M param model available, see [models](#models).
 
-Quick note on sampling, the recommendation for ~best results is to sample with `-t 1.0 -p 0.9`, i.e. temperature 1.0 (default) but also top-p sampling at 0.9 (not default!). The top-p sampling is turned off by default because it can run quite a bit slower. More generally, to control the diversity of samples use either the temperature (i.e. vary `-t` between 0 and 1 and keep top-p off with `-p 0`) or the top-p value (i.e. vary `-p` between 0 and 1 and keep `-t 1`), but not both. Nice explainers on LLM sampling strategies include [this](https://peterchng.com/blog/2023/05/02/token-selection-strategies-top-k-top-p-and-temperature/), [this](https://docs.cohere.com/docs/controlling-generation-with-top-k-top-p) or [this](https://huggingface.co/blog/how-to-generate).
+Quick note on sampling, the recommendation for ~best results is to sample with `-t 1.0 -p 0.9`, i.e. temperature 1.0 (default) but also top-p sampling at 0.9 (default). Intuitively, top-p ensures that tokens with tiny probabilities do not get sampled, so we can't get "unlucky" during sampling, and we are less likely to go "off the rails" afterwards. More generally, to control the diversity of samples use either the temperature (i.e. vary `-t` between 0 and 1 and keep top-p off with `-p 0`) or the top-p value (i.e. vary `-p` between 0 and 1 and keep `-t 1`), but not both. Nice explainers on LLM sampling strategies include [this](https://peterchng.com/blog/2023/05/02/token-selection-strategies-top-k-top-p-and-temperature/), [this](https://docs.cohere.com/docs/controlling-generation-with-top-k-top-p) or [this](https://huggingface.co/blog/how-to-generate).
 
 ## Meta's Llama 2 models