Connor Harris

Contacts: connorh94 at-sign gmail dot com / Twitter: cmhrrs

Essays and presentations

CrowdStrike: What happened, why did it happen, and how can we stop it from happening again? (July 2024): Thorough but layman-friendly discussion of the CrowdStrike Falcon outage of July 19, 2024, including an extensive introduction to relevant programming and operating systems concepts.
Land reclamation in San Francisco Bay: a primer (June 2024): short discussion of the economics and engineering of land reclamation in the San Francisco Bay Area
Spaced repetition and Anki: a practical introduction: a slideshow explaining the basic concepts behind spaced repetition software and a brief tutorial for Anki, the most popular spaced repetition program. (First presented March 2024 to the Houston rationalist meetup; since revised)

Linear Algebra Done Half-Right: a treatment of the abstract approach to linear algebra, using axiomatically defined maps and vector spaces, that doesn't neglect matrix algorithms and makes the introduction to a pure mathematics style of thinking as gentle as possible.
Companion to the textbook Introduction to Quantum Mechanics, Second Editiion by David Griffiths (work in progress; incomplete)

Most of my other writing is collated at my Manhattan Institute author page. I would recommend these as examples of my best work: