Information & Signals.

Trying an uncertain option can teach you something, even when another seems better now.

Leading digits in scale-spanning measurements are often far from uniform.

A stricter threshold reduces false alarms but can miss real signals.

A fair binary event carries more uncertainty than one that almost always repeats.

Repeating a bit can overcome some errors but uses extra capacity.

A part that cannot be sped up limits the gain from adding more workers.

A ranked item can appear roughly in inverse proportion to its rank.