Jayden Macklin-Cordes

A real amiable sort of freak. Just keeping Pace.

[Jayden Macklin-Cordes @JaydenC]

@shaggysurvives @Anheroic13 @aburisotto This is already basically the case. Men and women train together all the time, and mixed starts are common in marathons (and trail running/ultras

[Jayden Macklin-Cordes @JaydenC]

Blog post + worked examples: https://t.co/O7hVdqsuOB

Or just jump in and play: https://t.co/2fKEpEimTY

[Jayden Macklin-Cordes @JaydenC]

For years, I’ve extracted colour palettes for slides and figures from my own photos, manually with macOS's Color Meter. It works, but it’s slow and non-replicable. So I built an app to fix that.

[Jayden Macklin-Cordes @JaydenC]

Chromatography: free, browser-based, OKLab clustering, APCA contrast scoring, exports to CSS/R/GIMP/etc. No account, no backend. Runs entirely locally — your photos never leave your machine. Whole app is under 100kB.

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Full post: https://t.co/RlRdBnv8UI

[Jayden Macklin-Cordes @JaydenC]

In 2022 I wrote a blog post about my PhD and promised a follow-up explaining the results. Consider this a four-year slow-burn cliffhanger resolution. 🧵

[Jayden Macklin-Cordes @JaydenC]

If you only publish results that work, you leave a misleading impression of what methods are ready. Honest reporting of where things stand matters, even when "where things stand" is disappointing.

[Jayden Macklin-Cordes @JaydenC]

But "indeterminate" ≠ "negative." With (plenty!) of time and space to reflect, I still think there were some useful takeaways for the field, and a generalisable framework for the kind of careful, rigorous methodological development I'd like to see more of.

[Jayden Macklin-Cordes @JaydenC]

@focusfronting Yeh ok I see your point. It seemed odd to me to criticise the general credence [prep - idk lol] model introspection when it seemed to do ok here. But I certainly agree with caution around how much model introspection can really tell you

[Jayden Macklin-Cordes @JaydenC]

@focusfronting Im curious, is there anything in Claude’s response here that you find particularly wrong or misleading? It seems pretty much fine to me..?

[Jayden Macklin-Cordes @JaydenC]

Full write-up on my blog: https://t.co/djnszg7PkK. SC Alchemist is also open-source on Github if you want to dig around.
#AFL #Supercoach #MatesAreTemporarySupercoachPremiershipsAreForever

[Jayden Macklin-Cordes @JaydenC]

I treated myself to some of Anthropic's sweet Opus compute for one thing that really matters: Beating my mates at fantasy footy.

[Jayden Macklin-Cordes @JaydenC]

It turns out that the real value of the exercise wasn't the optimiser output itself — it was building a rigorous quantitative framework that forced me to be explicit about my own judgements, helping to sort genuine insight from noise and hype.

[Jayden Macklin-Cordes @JaydenC]

New research by @CopotMaria reveals French 'defective verbs' aren't truly ungrammatical—they're victims of social stigma. Acceptability judgments correlate with prescriptivist attitudes and lexeme frequency, challenging existing defectiveness theory https://t.co/qCarraWowU