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

 

Advance MAID requests: we need to talk about the day of death

Will Advance MAID requests bring the relief that people are looking for?
Essays
MAID
The Province of Quebec has recently created procedures that allow advance requests for assisted dying. But do they really? I sent this to the Globe and Mail as an opinion piece, but they decided not to publish it so I thought I’d save it here. It was a response to a Globe and Mail article and followed a short exchange on the Letters page.
Dec 13, 2024
Tom Slee
4 min

Simple Simulations of Ridehail Traffic and Trips

Uncertainties
Uber
Computer simulations of ridehail traffic and trips in a simplified city
Oct 18, 2024
Tom Slee
29 min

Yet Another Introduction to Quantum Computing

Uncertainties
Quantum Computing
…as plainly as I can, attempt 0.1
Oct 18, 2024
Tom Slee
27 min

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

Essays
A report for RideFairTO
Jan 30, 2023
Tom Slee
41 min

From Ant Wars to Human Wars

Essays
Ant Wars
What do wars between ant colonies tell us about human wars?
Jan 16, 2023
Graeme MacQueen, Tom Slee
26 min

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?”
Nov 2, 2022
Graeme MacQueen, Tom Slee
96 min

Uber transit pitch misses the mark

Essays
An op-ed, published in the Toronto Star on March 29, 2021
Mar 29, 2021
Tom Slee
4 min

The incompatible incentives of private sector AI

Essays
A contribution to The Oxford Handbook of Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, Oxford University Press 2019
Aug 20, 2019
Tom Slee
37 min

Workarounds and Medical Machine Learning

Essays
Adversarial examples are surprisingly similar to workarounds that fix mistakes. There are consequences.
Aug 5, 2019
Tom Slee
12 min

The Rise and Fall of the Sharing Economy

Essays
A presentation to the Symposium of the Ernst Schmidheiny Foundation, Friday November 23, 2018.
Nov 23, 2018
Tom Slee
33 min

In Praise of Fake Reviews

Essays
Reputation
Fake reviews can be a legitimate response to predatory reputation systems
Oct 5, 2014
Tom Slee
23 min
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