[Strilanc]

Honestly, I'm kind of skeptical of the answer. I'm not saying that talking with Nyquist wouldn't be useful, probably it was, but what's stopping a dozen other things at least that useful from being part of the answer?

[jacquesm]

> I'm not saying that talking with Nyquist wouldn't be useful

No, you probably shouldn't be saying that:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Nyquist

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyquist_frequency

> but what's stopping a dozen other things at least that useful from being part of the answer?

Because someone needs to act, and that's exactly what Nyquist did, in a very unobtrusive and non-confrontational manner.

[edgyquant]

Posting his achievements does nothing to prove speaking with him during lunch was useful in this context

> Because someone needs to act, and that's exactly what Nyquist did, in a very unobtrusive and non-confrontational manner

Seems like your headcanon. It reality they ate lunch together and passed ideas around.

[Strilanc]

For the record, I did recognize the name. That's why I believed talking to them was useful.

[OJFord]

Concretely I'd suggest that Nyquist was probably most interested in lunching with other smart people who had interesting things to talk about.

I.e. there's no check or control on their output without lunch or breakfast with him, maybe it'd have been little different.