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#introduction - Hi. I'm Shawn Jones. I'm a cat dad and an ISTI Postdoc Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
I'm interested in #MachineLearning #caturday #webarchiving #NLP #webscience #computervision #socialmedia #LEGO #IDIC and much more.
I recently moved from mastodon.social to hachyderm.io. I'm a Computer Scientist who moves between software engineering and research. I may post about code, papers, and conferences.
The attached image helps my colleagues differentiate my cats. 
Thanks to @sigje for recommending hachyderm.io to me. While catching up on podcasts I finally listened to the episode of @shanselman's podcast where he interviewed @nova. It gave me the push to finally migrate my account!
@shawnmjones @shanselman @nova And thanks to @nova and all the awesome folks who contribute moderation to this fabulous instance! I'm so grateful for all that they do.
@shawnmjones your cats must be extremely dangerous, they have colour coded chains
@shawnmjones do you walk them as most do a dog?
@mcole I do walk them, but walking a cat is more of a “supervised exploration” than a “we’re going this way.” That being said, Malala is the better walker. She seems to understand and respond to the leash gestures (if she decides to). With Marjon it’s more of a fight. Either way, I do end up carrying them and setting them down in a new place from time to time. I started leash training them at 6 months. It requires patience, analysis, compassion, and understanding.
@shawnmjones “14 confirmed kills” Are you gunna put 14 little mouse skulls on the side of Malala the Grey’s fuselage?
It always amazes me re: cats how they are not really that far removed from big cats in the wild in that even the sweetest kitty goes outside and becomes a ruthless killer. Since we adopted our cat 13 years ago, our mouse population here in the forest is nil. Yet she loves to cuddle on our laps at night.
@Av8rdan We need to find her a better-fitting harness and placing “kill marks” on the side sounds like a good idea. I’m telling my wife.
Marjon can find prey, but his sister (they are littermates) often steals it from him for the kill. Malala is smaller than him, but meaner, faster, and more agile. Often she wins a battle and then calmly shows up to maintain our nightly lap appointment.
We live in a desert city. I’m not sure I want to see the mayhem that Malala might bring to a forest.
@shawnmjones Our cat once went nose to nose with a deer on our back patio. She is fearless to anything except dogs, they are a def no-go. We had a mole problem, I talked to her and told her to go get it, and damn if I did not find a dead mole as a gift a couple of days later. Problem solved, just cost me a few cans of Friskies.
@shawnmjones I love how you have taken the time and effort to clearly and articulately describe the image in your Toot as part of the Alt text.
Looking at what you've done, I realize my Alt text descriptions have a very long way to go.
@kiranjholla I did write the sentence describing the scene, but I must confess that I did let the Mastodon Web client extract the text from the picture before correcting it. I’ll have to see if I bookmarked it, but someone wrote a post a month or so ago describing how to write good alt text for toots.