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samuel mehr

@mehr.nz

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i am a cognitive scientist working on auditory perception at the University of Auckland and the Yale Child Study Center 🇳🇿🇺🇸🇫🇷🇨🇦 lab: themusiclab.org personal: mehr.nz intro to my research: youtu.be/-vJ7Jygr1eg

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 5h

stayed up wayyyyy past my bedtime and just sent a much longer, much better draft of the thing to the guy. please clap

samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 28d

sent a draft of the thing to the guy please clap

samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 5h

a classic!

samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 6h

woohoo got to do it again today while up late finishing a proposal

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · Dec 14

it's wild that R, the ubiquitous statistical computing language, was co-created by a Māori prof (Ross Ihaka) — and yet the vast majority of scientists who use R don't know

this is like inventing the toaster. possibly the largest impact of a single member of an indigenous community on modern science

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 11d

here are some helpful steps for academics who are considering creating genAI images to use for lab branding:

1. don't

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 8h

This I'm more OK with, on the assumption that throwing away perfectly good old cars is a net negative, and our climate is such that cars last a real long time here

samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 11h

Montréal is an interesting comparison point with massive car culture (both bc of history with formula racing and very very cold winters) but also huge transit improvements with an extensive metro and bus system and now the REM, massive commuter rail project that takes you everywhere

samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 11h

Sorta incongruous with the conservation stuff, but also parts of Auckland and welly have made great progress with electric bus uptake and ferries etc. Culture change takes time I suppose. Constantly floored though to see tiny kids in front seats!!!

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 11h

me I prefer (1) the ferry and (2) keeping my tiny children alive

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 11h

two car-related things about Auckland I'll say are (1) folks really love driving here, far more than in north American cities I've lived in; and (2) folks are very willing to put their tiny children in the front seat, where they are likely to be beheaded by an explosive airbag

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 14h

he tried really hard not to laugh but failed

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 14h

7yo, after school, excitedly: guess what

Me, having waited his entire life for this moment: chicken butt

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 16h

On the auditory side, I appear to have pre-agreed with you all, at least for music, without having read your paper doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...

samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 16h

Lol yep

samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 17h

put it on my tombstone

samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 18h

Lol I also just read this, which is fiction, and the other meaning of "audition" but felt like the right move (kitamura is great!!)

samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 18h

gotta be prepared simon !!!

samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 18h

multiple stacks going on at the moment, not all new ones for me but good stuff all around so far

stack of books:
de Waal "are we smart enough to know how smart animals are?"
keltner "awe"
sacks "musicophilia"
yong "an immense world"
mcdonald "you have not yet heard your favourite song"

stack of books:
miller "why fish don't exist"
pelly "mood machine"
dehaene "the number sense"
singh "shamanism"
peretz "how music sculpts our brain"
bergstrom/west "calling bullshit"
seaver "computing taste"
doctorow "the internet con"

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 19h

one of my favourite moments in new projects is the ritual buying-of-books that seem cool and I may or may not ever read

aside from the fun of 'more books', it feels like a karmatic gift, a payment to the fates to tip the scales toward the project's eventual success

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 21h

I can't say it's under embargo!!!!

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 21h

"I could barely hear the orchestra"

samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 21h

Anyway this is a tweet about academic navel-gazing

samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 21h

Pleased to share that I received an exclusive invitation this morning to the birthday party of my currently four-year-old child

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 1d

my uni's M365 distribution doesn't seem to have access to COPILOT() but has it in a side pane, and it was able to sum those values without issue

samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 1d

That's gonna be hard

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