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It occurs to me that this is a binary search on the alphabet, but could be made into a much more human-compatible format: “Is the letter in the first half of th
by hackmiester 5y ago
It occurs to me that this is a binary search on the alphabet, but could be made into a much more human-compatible format: “Is the letter in the first half of the alphabet?” “Is the letter between A and F?”
- soperj 5y agoyeah, I guess you'd start with the first 13/last 13 and break it down in halves from there. It would take only 6 choices to pick a letter. I still think memorizing the binary version of the letters would be faster, and wouldn't take all that long considering the amount of use.
- dn3500 5y agoThe code is (or can be) the same either way. I imagine after a few days the user would memorize the codes for the letters and skip the prompts. On a related note, one character per minute is about the same speed as the first trans-atlantic telegraph cable in 1858.
- DarylZero 5y agoYou want a variable length code that takes into account letter frequencies.
- eternityforest 5y agoI'm not sure that's exactly human friendly. Can people answer questions like that without training? Would the amount of thought needed create a noise signal? If they have vision, you could ask "Which of these two sets is the letter in", where the sets were dynamically generated by predictive software.