The soft optimization post took 24 person-weeks (assuming 4 people half-time for 12 weeks) plus some of Jeremy’s time.
Team member here. I think this is a significant overestimate, I’d guess at 12-15 person-weeks. If it’s relevant I can ask all former team members how much time they spent; it was around 10h per week for me. Given that we were beginners and spent a lot of time learning about the topic, I feel we were doing fine and learnt a lot.
Working on this part-time was difficult for me and the fact that people are not working on these things full-time in the camp should be considered when judging research output.
Team member here. I think this is a significant overestimate, I’d guess at 12-15 person-weeks. If it’s relevant I can ask all former team members how much time they spent; it was around 10h per week for me. Given that we were beginners and spent a lot of time learning about the topic, I feel we were doing fine and learnt a lot.
Working on this part-time was difficult for me and the fact that people are not working on these things full-time in the camp should be considered when judging research output.