TK, or the secret to effortless writing (2024)

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29 points | by Tomte 2 hours ago ago

13 comments

  • natbennett an hour ago ago

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

  • cauch an hour ago 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, ...)

  • karmakaze 44 minutes ago 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.

    • Haranrk 9 minutes ago ago

      I think this is a great idea.

  • aleksiy123 an hour ago ago

    GCP employees heart rate spiking at the title.

  • sublinear an hour ago 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.

  • x______________ an hour ago ago

    tl;dr

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

    • ultraboom an hour ago ago

      I slice my latke with a pocketknife.

      • karmakaze an hour ago 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.
      • wonger_ 19 minutes ago ago

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