Comment (by Zach Etienne):

I don’t think this “new” functionality qualifies as “bleeding edge”, as it was hashed out in the publication. It’s basically an empirically derived means to set a more optimal value for the damping parameter.

Also I believe “soon” means “within a few days”.

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