{"id":2238,"date":"2011-11-07T23:39:26","date_gmt":"2011-11-08T07:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/?p=2238"},"modified":"2023-05-19T18:20:44","modified_gmt":"2023-05-20T01:20:44","slug":"morse-code-by-decision-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/?p=2238","title":{"rendered":"Morse Code by decision tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Morse Code is made of dots and dashes (or dits and dahs), which until today I thought of as a flat lookup table.  And then I discovered this awesome chart:<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Morse-code-tree.svg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=400 src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/1\/19\/Morse-code-tree.svg\/800px-Morse-code-tree.svg.png\"><\/center><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of COURSE!  I knew that it was designed so fewer dits\/dahs were needed to encode common letters like E and T, but I had never seen it laid out like this.  <\/p>\n<p>This chart is meant as a learning aid; rather than trying to memorize Morse code in a flat table form, you can follow the tree while you&#8217;re listening to Morse code coming in.  Go left for dah, right for dit.  It&#8217;s beautiful!  You can try it now by going to the site linked above and listening to their sample codes.  Listening to the alphabet and tracing it through the tree is a magical experience.<\/p>\n<p>With practice, I imagine you start seeing the chart in your head, and then later you&#8217;ve got the letters memorized and no longer need it.  <\/p>\n<p>I love discovering clever aids to learning, and new ways to organize information that illuminate it in truly useful ways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morse Code is made of dots and dashes (or dits and dahs), which until today I thought of as a flat lookup table. And then I discovered this awesome chart: Of COURSE! I knew that it was designed so fewer dits\/dahs were needed to encode common letters like E and T, but I had never [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2238"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5409,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238\/revisions\/5409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}