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

ultraboom
I slice my latke with a pocketknife.
karmakaze
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_
True, but have you ever sliced your LATKE with a POCKETKNIFE?
techno_tsar
...I did, a few years ago, when I went camping with some friends.
cauch
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, ...)

natbennett
I do this a lot but I use “TK:” with the colon to make it unambiguously grep-able (stands out better visually too)
aleksiy123
GCP employees heart rate spiking at the title.
sublinear
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.

chickensong
I think you can use whatever you want. The point is just to drop a quick marker that you can find later, and not interrupt your flow.
sublinear
Ah, never mind. A slight refinement needed here.

AP style only spells out one through nine. 10 and above are written as numerals. So, you'd get 10 tags, not 100.

I think the regex would be: /(?<!\d)\d{1}(?!\d)/

kazinator
[delayed]
sublinear
No. I was thinking of AP style [1], but I was mistaken. Anyway, it's not like these guidelines are at the level of consistency you're probably expecting. I will merely take inspiration and strictly spell single-digit numbers "zero" through "nine". The "real" style guidelines have absurd exceptions that are completely irrelevant to me.

My parent comment wasn't an entirely unreasonable idea though [2]. There's generally a less than one percent chance of a high value two-digit number occurring. Three digits and above are even less likely.

[1]: https://apstylebook.com/ask_the_editors/style_guidance

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_law#Generalization...

karmakaze
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.
Haranrk
I think this is a great idea.
ifh-hn
I just used to use: ????

It server the same purpose, placeholder for a word I couldn't think of, and wouldn't naturely appear in the text. Plus for me I could hammer out the four characters in frustration too, for not being able to think of the word/term I wanted.