diff --git a/16_nlp_with_rnns_and_attention.ipynb b/16_nlp_with_rnns_and_attention.ipynb
index ff30fb1..e12c6b6 100644
--- a/16_nlp_with_rnns_and_attention.ipynb
+++ b/16_nlp_with_rnns_and_attention.ipynb
@@ -293,9 +293,12 @@
    "source": [
     "model = keras.models.Sequential([\n",
     "    keras.layers.GRU(128, return_sequences=True, input_shape=[None, max_id],\n",
-    "                     dropout=0.2, recurrent_dropout=0.2),\n",
+    "                     # no dropout in stateful RNN (https://github.com/ageron/handson-ml2/issues/32)\n",
+    "                     # dropout=0.2, recurrent_dropout=0.2,\n",
+    "                     ),\n",
     "    keras.layers.GRU(128, return_sequences=True,\n",
-    "                     dropout=0.2, recurrent_dropout=0.2),\n",
+    "                     # dropout=0.2, recurrent_dropout=0.2\n",
+    "                    ),\n",
     "    keras.layers.TimeDistributed(keras.layers.Dense(max_id,\n",
     "                                                    activation=\"softmax\"))\n",
     "])\n",