Mike's Checks/meta-muse-spark-1.3/11 hoboken-map
11 hoboken-map
meta-muse-spark-1.3OpenCodehigh effortrun 8 Sep 2026125,728 tokens
▸Instructions — the case's current instructions; none were saved with this result
11 — Neighborhood map + self-validating "hidden gem score"
This is a short multi-turn task. There are no data inputs — do your own
public web research to find real places. Treat the prompts below as a
conversation that arrives in order; the interesting one is the last.
Prompts (in order)
- My wife and kids and I just moved to north Hoboken — make me an interactive
map of family recommendations (playgrounds, food, activities, day trips). - Can you add a date-night category?
- What about a tapas place?
- Now work on a proprietary "hidden gem" score. Determine a way to measure
it and validate that it matches expectations. Use public data where possible.
What "good" looks like
- A single self-contained, interactive map artifact (
index.html) a non-technical
family member could open and use, with the categories above. - Real, plausibly-correct Hoboken-area places — not invented ones.
- For prompt 4: a genuinely thought-through metric. Pre-register a methodology
and your priors/expectations before collecting and scoring data, then test the
computed scores against those locked priors and report how well they matched.
Keep the methodology, the data, the scores, and the validation as inspectable
files (e.g. a methodology writeup, a data file, a scoring script, a scores file).
Once produced, the artifact must open and work by double-clicking index.html —
no build step, no local server, no API keys, nothing to install. Loading a mapping
library and map tiles from a public CDN is expected and fine; "no API keys" means
no paid or credentialed services, not no network.
Answer
North Hoboken Family Map — Answer
Open index.html (double-click; needs internet only for Leaflet CDN + map tiles). No build, no keys.
What's on the map (27 real places)
- Playgrounds (5): Church Square Park, Columbus Park, Southwest Resiliency Park, Elysian Park, Pier C Park.
- Family food (5): Benny Tudino's, Fiore's House of Quality, Carlo's Bake Shop, O'Bagel, Lisa's Italian Deli.
- Activities (5): Hoboken Historical Museum, Fire Dept Museum, Liberty Science Center, Pier 13, Pier A Park.
- Day trips (4): Central Park, AMNH, Liberty State Park, Bronx Zoo.
- Date night (5, added per prompt 2): Sorellina, Augustino's, Amanda's (BYOB), Otto Strada, Halifax.
- Tapas (3, added per prompt 3): Bin 14 (Hoboken wine bar with explicit small-plates tapas menu), Tapas de España (Heights, Jersey City), La Isla (Cuban, shareable-plates adjacent). Note: Hoboken proper has almost no traditional Spanish tapas house; Bin 14 is the honest in-town pick. "El Ocho" was researched and does not appear to exist — excluded rather than invented.
All places verified against OpenStreetMap/official sites; addresses in places.csv.
Hidden-gem score (prompt 4)
- Method pre-registered in
METHODOLOGY.mdbefore scoring. - Formula:
gem = 100 × quality × obscurity, quality from shrinkage-adjusted Google rating, obscurity from log review count. Inspectable:places.csv(data) →score.py(script) →scores.json/scores.csv(outputs) →VALIDATION.md(test). - Validation (locked priors): Spearman ρ = 0.956 (criterion > 0.7); pairwise 11/12 (criterion ≥ 10); top-3 and bottom-3 exact. The single miss: Elysian vs Columbus (36.9 vs 37.0) — near-tie, directionally wrong by 0.1 points.
- Top gems: Fire Dept Museum (48.3), Southwest Park (47.1), Lisa's Deli / Historical Museum (40.5). Landmarks correctly bottom: AMNH (0.4), Central Park (0.0).
- Honesty note: 6 Google rating/counts are aggregator-mirrored (flagged
verified-mirror); the rest are labeledestimate/estimate-order-of-magnitudeinplaces.csv. Replace with live Google values and re-runpython3 score.py— methodology needs no change.
Checks
7/8Map loadsrenders
a visible map container of at least 300x200 with >= 5 markers, in a headless browser. Cannot pass without Playwright installed.
Required categoriescategories
all six categories the prompt asks for are named somewhere in the output: playgrounds, food, activities, day-trips, date-night, tapas.
Required filesartifacts
the run left all four of a methodology write-up, a data file, a scoring script and a scores file.
Reproducible scoringreproducible
the scores file is deleted in a scratch copy and the scoring script re-run: it has to finish inside 180s and write the scores back. Missing grader prerequisites fail.
gems-vs-traps Retired
Retired check; no longer defined in the repo.
Q1Easy for family to use
Judge's reasoning
Single self-contained index.html with inlined data and CDN Leaflet — screenshot shows a working map with labeled place cards, named categories with checkboxes, a search box and a gem-score slider, no raw JSON or build step.
▸Rubric
Usable by a non-technical family member. Look at `map.png` and `full.png`, and at how `index.html` is meant to be opened. The bar, in the reviewer's words: "It's a single self-contained interactive map artifact, uh, that someone could open and use basically by clicking on the HTML." FAIL if using this would require technical knowledge — a build step, a local server, a terminal command, editing a file, or an interface that shows raw data (JSON blobs, coordinate dumps, unlabeled controls) instead of named places and readable categories. PASS if double-clicking the file gives someone a map with labeled places and controls they could figure out unaided.
Q2Criteria fixed before scoring
Judge's reasoning
METHODOLOGY.md locks a formula, a full 16-place prior ranking, 12 named pairwise predictions and numeric pass/fail thresholds (ρ>0.7, ≥10/12) stated as expectations about places, and VALIDATION.md reports the computed comparison including one prediction that failed (Elysian vs Columbus).
▸Rubric
Priors were locked before scoring. Read the methodology writeup and the scores/validation files. The prompt asked it to "**Pre-register** a methodology and your priors/expectations *before* collecting and scoring data, then test the computed scores against those locked priors and report how well they matched." FAIL if the priors read as written after the results were known — signals: no distinct set of priors stated separately from the findings; priors phrased in terms of the computed scores rather than as expectations about places or patterns; a "validation" section that restates the scores instead of describing a test the priors could have failed. PASS if there is a stated set of expectations that came first and a reported comparison against them, whether they held up or not.
Q3Real places
Judge's reasoning
Checked Hoboken Fire Department Museum (213 Bloomfield St, the top 'hidden gem'), Church Square Park, Fiore's House of Quality (414 Adams St), Carlo's Bake Shop (95 Washington St) and Liberty Science Center — all real, correctly named, and plausibly geolocated.
▸Rubric
Places are real. Pick five places from the map — spread across categories, including at least one the output calls a hidden gem — and check them against what you know about Hoboken and the surrounding area. The bar, in the reviewer's words: "real plausibly correct Hoboken area places, not invented ones." FAIL if any of the five is one you can positively identify as fabricated or misplaced — a business that does not exist, a name attached to the wrong town, or coordinates that put it far from where it actually is. If you cannot positively identify a problem with any of the five, PASS.