TK, or the secret to effortless writing (2024)

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26 points | by Tomte 1 hour ago

6 comments

  • natbennett 51 minutes ago

    I do this a lot but I use “TK:” with the colon to make it unambiguously grep-able (stands out better visually too)

    • karmakaze 36 minutes ago

      LLMs should use "TK" or stable diffusion (and the like) so as not to get hung up on sequential words/thoughts and fill them in later instead of hallucinating filler.

      • cauch 59 minutes ago

        I've a very dim memory of having heard about it years ago (more than a decades), from an article of Cory Doctorow, and in my mind, he was the one who came up with the idea (and chose the letters TK).

        But I can be wrong (maybe it's not from Doctorow, maybe the article did not even claim the paternity of coming up with TK but it was me badly understanding it, ...)

      • aleksiy123 46 minutes ago

        GCP employees heart rate spiking at the title.

        • sublinear 43 minutes ago

          Could you instead use any two numerical digits? Then you've got a tagging system with up to 100 tags.

          This assumes you're writing according to guidelines that insist you spell out all numbers. i.e. 58 is always intentionally "fifty-eight", so "58" must be your own meta text.

          • tl;dr

            add tk when you hit a wall (abbreviated from 'to come', yet spelled with k as tc appears in many words)

            • ultraboom 53 minutes ago

              I slice my latke with a pocketknife.

              • wonger_ 11 minutes ago

                True, but have you ever sliced your LATKE with a POCKETKNIFE?

                • karmakaze 37 minutes ago

                  I found the low frequency surprising as it's so easy to pronounce--I suppose tc is used in most cases. Here's what I found for bigram freqs near TK:

                  Ratios (count / total) and percentages:

                      PG: 0.00047%
                      TK: 0.00046%
                      KK: 0.00045%
                      HQ: 0.00042%
                      FN: 0.00042%
                  
                  Every other one here I'd expect to see: Postgres, kk/okay (and my initials), headquarters, function. Of course there's Tcl/Tk but not used nearly as much as it could.