Tom Slee

Completed pieces are listed on the Essays page.
Unpolished material is hidden in the Uncertainties section.
This site also contains an archive of my one-time blog, Whimsley.
There’s a little about me on the About Page.
Recently-changed pages on the site are listed below.

– Tom Slee

Yet Another Introduction to Quantum Computing

Uncertainties

Quantum Computing

…as plainly as I can, attempt 0.1

Simple Simulations of Ridehail Traffic and Trips

Uncertainties

Uber

Computer simulations of ridehail traffic and trips in a simplified city

High Emissions and Low Pay: Uber is Still Taking Regulators for a Ride

Essays

A report for RideFairTO

From Ant Wars to Human Wars

Essays

Ant Wars

What do wars between ant colonies tell us about human wars?

Graeme MacQueen, Tom Slee

War as a system in nature

Essays

Ant Wars

We take wars between ant colonies seriously, and ask: “How should ant wars change how we think of war itself?”

Graeme MacQueen, Tom Slee

Uber transit pitch misses the mark

Essays

An op-ed, published in the Toronto Star on March 29, 2021

The incompatible incentives of private sector AI

Essays

A contribution to The Oxford Handbook of Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, Oxford University Press 2019

Workarounds and Medical Machine Learning

Essays

Adversarial examples are surprisingly similar to workarounds that fix mistakes. There are consequences.

The Rise and Fall of the Sharing Economy

Essays

A presentation to the Symposium of the Ernst Schmidheiny Foundation, Friday November 23, 2018.

In Praise of Fake Reviews

Essays

Reputation

Fake reviews can be a legitimate response to predatory reputation systems