Re:The Consolidation Of Talent, Capital and Returns in Biotech
by abysmalfitzg on Saturday October 21, 2017 @01:05PM
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Would you not agree that it might be a bit of a British thing (the author is Oxford educated)? A reflexive urge to pluralize bands, companies and other startup-proximate collective nouns.
'"Data are" doesn't roll of their tongues smoothly. But for British readers the plural is more natural.' [0]
[0] https://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2012/07/point-...
BTW I looked you up. Do you know anything about Richard Muller's ideas for realising table-top detectors of gravitational waves?
Re:The Consolidation Of Talent, Capital and Returns in Biotech
by ISL on Saturday October 21, 2017 @02:09PM
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Whether it's a British thing or not is beyond my knowledge. I just wanted to celebrate something that made me happy :).
Regarding Richard Muller's proposals: I don't -- confusingly, I am familiar with Holger Müller's proposals, and it would appear that they are both at Berkeley.
Experiment is the arbiter of truth; whenever any new instrumentation can demonstrably reach the relevant sensitivity and systematic-effect rejection necessary to do a job better than it has been done before, we'll all switch to it.
The use of 'data' to mean 'plural of datum' continues to fall out of favor in modern usage. Encountering it in a Saturday-morning browse was a note of angelic harmony to start the day.