L O'hearn
Freelance Author at The Ketogenic Diet for Health
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Top SchoolL O'hearn is a computer scientist and freelance author with 13 years of experience applying natural language processing, machine learning, and information-structure thinking to practical problems. With an M.Sc. from the University of Toronto in computational linguistics, their work explores how representations—formal and natural—affect robustness, ambiguity, and inferential behavior, drawing on coding theory, human memory, and error-correction models. They have applied these ideas in industry at Return Path—improving privacy-preserving techniques, anomaly detection, and text classification—and contribute to technical communities through roles on nonprofit boards and grant committees. Comfortable moving between research and applied engineering, they combine theoretical insight with hands-on system design and a long-standing interest in how structure shapes communication.
14 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Hacker SchoolMaster of Science (MSc), Computer Science, Master of Science (MSc), Computer Science at University of TorontoBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science at Saint Mary's UniversityUniversity of Colorado at BoulderBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Russian Language and Literature, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Russian Language and Literature at University of Waterloo
English, Russian, French, German, Spanish, asl
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (35)
converter9
addon8
haskell8
commonmark8
pandoc8
markdown8
table-of-contents7
conda7
kafka7
emacs7
markup-language7
python7
markup7
html6
nlp6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ambimorph/subsymbol.org
Feb 2015 - Jun 2026
Contributions:56 pushes, 2 branches in 11 years 5 months
ambimorph/protagonist
Jun 2014 - Jul 2014
Contributions:97 commits in 26 days
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