https://www.ryanprior.com/tags/math/ Recent content in Math on Ryan Prior Hugo en-us rprior@protonmail.com (Ryan Prior) rprior@protonmail.com (Ryan Prior) <a href="https://www.ryanprior.com/license">please share–see license info</a> Mon, 02 Nov 2026 17:56:27 +0000 https://www.ryanprior.com/posts/nyquist-limit-frequency-of-changes-in-tech-invalidates-understanding/ Mon, 02 Nov 2026 17:56:27 +0000rprior@protonmail.com (Ryan Prior) https://www.ryanprior.com/posts/nyquist-limit-frequency-of-changes-in-tech-invalidates-understanding/ <p> Product teams are using LLMs to increase the frequency of change in technology, and near a certain limit, the <em>sample rate</em> (the human decision maker&#39;s rate of understanding and evaluating technology) would need to more than double <em>every time the frequency of changes does</em> in order to retain validity, but that&#39;s not happening. The result is that these teams think they&#39;re measuring signal, but are actually measuring noise and filtering that through an LLM to produce signal-shaped noise.</p>