Switch on/off verbose mode

        Parameters
        ----------
        verbose : bool
            switch on/off verbose mode
        print_func : function
            A function that computes statistics of initialized arrays.
            Takes an `NDArray` and returns an `str`. Defaults to mean
            absolute value str((abs(x)/size(x)).asscalar()).

def set_verbosity(self, verbose=False, print_func=None):
        """Switch on/off verbose mode

        Parameters
        ----------
        verbose : bool
            switch on/off verbose mode
        print_func : function
            A function that computes statistics of initialized arrays.
            Takes an `NDArray` and returns an `str`. Defaults to mean
            absolute value str((abs(x)/size(x)).asscalar()).
        """
        self._verbose = verbose
        if print_func is None:
            def asum_stat(x):
                """returns |x|/size(x), async execution."""
                return str((ndarray.norm(x)/sqrt(x.size)).asscalar())
            print_func = asum_stat
        self._print_func = print_func
        return self