The nuclear medicine technologists agreed in all cases but 18, resulting in a kappa value of 0.70.
One thing that most technologists can agree with is that while this machine might not be the end-game for consumer computing, it includes quite a bit of technology that will eventually be priced for mass-markets.
Giving a view from outside academia, author and data science consultant Cathy O'Neil, who has written a book on how big data can increase inequality, argues that the most pressing challenge is not so much how to audit algorithms but how to get technologists to agree algorithms need to be audited.
At the root of our inability to agree on anything was this: Technologists are often utopianists.
Was the NHS Trust suffering from an overly shiny perception of technologists' intentions when it agreed to hand millions of people's medical records to an ad-targeting giant in exchange for a little free app development assistance and a few years' unpaid access to the resulting service?
Smil readily agrees the technologists are right that duplicating American levels of consumption in China or India is not sustainable.
Like any good columnist, I made phone calls until I found someone — anyone — to agree with me and came up with Paul Saffo, the esteemed technologist from Silicon Valley.
Technologists have been debating the existence of such a bubble for over a year now, but they just can't seem to agree.
Thus, this study reflects a more real clinical setting compared to simulation studies or single-center studies, which commonly uses fewer physicians/technologists that are more likely to agree on assessments.
