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Jupyter DSLs

Cross-posted from the Helical project blog.

One of the broader goals of the Helical project is to make writing, maintaining, and debugging experiments easier and safer for the end-user through a novel domain-specific language. However, learning a new formal language can itself contribute to the difficulty of encoding an experiment. Therefore, we are intersted in mitigating the effects of language learning/novelty. To this end, a Northeastern coop student (Kevin G. Yang) investigated the suitability of using Jupyter notebooks as an execution environment for experiments last year.

New student, new project!

Cross-posted from the Helical project blog.

I want to extend a belated welcome to Zixuan (Jason) Yu, a Northeastern University undergraduate student who is working with me on a research coop through December 2025. Jason's project focuses on identifying elements of the Mastodon code base where we might either want to intervene (in order to answer a research question) or where there might be associated privacy considerations.