Coding and the Mozart EffectPJ HagertyEngine Yard@aspleenic

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Engine Yard

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Ruby, PHP, Node.js, Java

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About me

• Coding for the last 10 years, the last 5 as a Rubyist

• Musician/Producer

• Audiophile

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What is Music?

• Music is a holy place, a cathedral so majestic that we can sense the magnificence of the universe, and also a hovel so simple and private that none of us can plumb its deepest secrets.

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Music as a Healer

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What was Don thinking?

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A note on Homeopathy

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What is the Mozart Effect?

• A set of research results that indicate that listening to Mozart's music may induce a short-term improvement on the performance of certain kinds of mental tasks known as "spatial-temporal reasoning”

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In English please

• YOUR BRAIN WORKS GOOD ON TUNEZ

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But why?

• Coding == Math == Music

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Were They Thinking of Us?

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What’s wrong with that?

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The Bieber Effect?

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What’s in the music?

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What about the coding?

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It’s all Ephemeral

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What’s the right music?

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What does *this* mean?

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What floats my boat?

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More boats?

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WARNING!

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Consider Getting in a Different Boat

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Finding New Music

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Safety First(ish)

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But isn’t that isolating?

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Share

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Make a “Mix-Tape”

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Take a break

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Do it yourself

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Do it with code

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Unlocking is the Key

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Resources

• Don Campbell (1997). The Mozart Effect: Tapping the Power of Music to Heal the Body, Strengthen the Mind, and Unlock the Creative Spirit. ISBN 0-380-97418-5.

• F.H. Rauscher et. al. (1993) Music and Spatial Task Performance. PubMed PMID 8413624

• B.E. Rideout et. al. (1998) Effect of music on spatial performance: a test of generality. PubMed PMID 8724912

• William Pryse-Phillips (2003). Companion to Clinical Neurology. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-515938-1

• http://www.univforum.org/pdf/the_mozart_effect.pdf

• http://www.jrsm.rsmjournals.com/content/94/4/170.full

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Thanks

• [email protected] - @aspleenic

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