diff --git a/modules/deeplearning/icing.py b/modules/deeplearning/icing.py
index 6ada5b6c625c81dd628ed4f4cccaf3b3ed520cad..3ee0f26a8d834f4b33fcbfde33e330e6616d9cab 100644
--- a/modules/deeplearning/icing.py
+++ b/modules/deeplearning/icing.py
@@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ class IcingIntensityNN:
         self.h5f = h5py.File(filename, 'r')
         time = self.h5f['time']
         num_obs = time.shape[0]
-        trn_idxs, tst_idxs = split_data(num_obs, skip=8)
+        trn_idxs, tst_idxs = split_data(num_obs, skip=4)
         self.num_data_samples = trn_idxs.shape[0]
 
         self.get_train_dataset(trn_idxs)
@@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ class IcingIntensityNN:
         else:
             flat = self.X_img
             n_hidden = self.X_img.shape[1]
-            n_hidden = 40
+            n_hidden = 50
 
         fac = 1