Playing chess = composing music

Interesting interview about the recognition of patterns in chess, that it is similar to recognize patterns in words, phrases in music, etc.:

How chess can sharpen your mind

Memories and joy

Children can play and play and play. Here in Europe prominent toys are coming from Lego or Playmobil that help us to explore space, time, social interactions. Probably the feeling that helps us fuelling our desire for play is joy. It is great to let our memories wander for a while and re-experience the joy that was acting like a friend helping us to learn more.

Objects and intentions

As I am learning more on object-oriented programming, I come again to the conclusion that in the design of algorithms it is helpful to take the intentional stance, i.e. what would the algorithm like to do, what believes do we assume the algorithm has, etc.

See more on this at: wikipedia on intentional stance

And when we mix objects, intentions and nature we maybe arrive at paintings like these