About the Author

Richard Lawson is from Australia and studied Computer Science at the University of Melbourne. Since graduating, he built a business specializing at web scraping while traveling the world, working remotely from over 50 countries. He is a fluent Esperanto speaker, conversational at Mandarin and Korean, and active in contributing to and translating open source software. He is currently undertaking postgraduate studies at Oxford University and in his spare time enjoys developing autonomous drones.

I would like to thank Professor Timothy Baldwin for introducing me to this exciting field and Tharavy Douc for hosting me in Paris while I wrote this book.