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I am infinitely jealous.
You could apply and decide if you can go later.
Yes, it's looking like I'd have to do that ... a ten week block is a lot.
Is the ten weeks thing designed to select for college students?
In fairness, suppose they'd gone for five weeks instead. A lot of people would probably have looked at it and thought 'that sounds interesting, and five weeks is easier than ten... but I can't spare five weeks either'. Though I'd certainly have considered it if it had come up when I was a college student.
Yes, that's probably true, both in the sense that you'll always be excluding someone at the margin, and in the sense that people who really don't want to do it, but don't want to admit that to themselves, will come up with some other excuse like this one.
In my case, though, I can take 3-5 weeks of leave from work (depending on how carefully I shepherd my resources) before I have to start negotiating unpaid leave. I imagine there are some other people in the same boat.
Who knows... If they do not get enough responses I expect them to change the length. They probably just wrote down everything they ideally would like to have time to teach, and figured out how long they thought it would take at a breakneck pace,
longer == better It surely beats a weekend seminar.
No, infinites don't exist, apemind. What I think you mean is that "The function representing your jealousy response approaches infinity in the limit as your situation parameters approach the present one."
Who said jealousy is measured using real numbers?
Suppose we take a standard unit of jealousy to be the jealousy one gets at seeing someone else have a newer computer than yours. Perhaps it will be the case that Rationality-Boot-Camp jealousy is incomparable to this standard unit: no amount of standard units will equal as much jealousy as SarahC experienced from reading this post. Unlikely, but not a priori impossible.
In that case, it will make sense to assign some sort of infinite number to SarahC's jealousy (the exact nature of that infinity will depend on the structure that jealous feelings have).