Tom Hume

2025: hard year, good year.

2024 was mostly a work year.

I don’t remember how I came across it, but this is one of the most exciting papers I’ve read recently.

2023 brought enough disruption and disappointment that I struggle to look back on it with much warmth.

So back in February I set up a local reading group for cognitive science.

I really enjoyed spending some time last year learning about cognition, and I didn’t want it to end there.

I wanted to write something about 2022, to get it out of my head before 2023 rolls over it.

I spent 3 months over the summer on a break from work (if you’re feeling pretentious, feel free to call it a sabbatical) mostly to keep a promise I made to myself a decade ago: when I was interviewing at Google my recruiter had warned me that without a de…

(sorry) I’ve been on a break from work for the last few months, and one of the things I’ve been doing is learning more about the brain: by taking Computational Models of Cognition as part of Berkeley University’s Summer Sessions, doing the (excellent) Bra…

I found this dusty old box in a cupboard, dug out a few old cables and plugged it in.