Indeed a great trick. I often double it to TKTK just to make it stand out even more.
replyFun fact: the Ghost.org editor looks for TK
If you use Brashtag notation you could insert #tk{} bag.
replyI do this a lot but I use “TK:” with the colon to make it unambiguously grep-able (stands out better visually too)
replyI'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).
replyBut 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, ...)
TK is a very standard term, see William Safire's usage in this 1996 NY Times article: https://www.nytimes.com/1996/10/06/magazine/of-hacks-and-tk....
replyMmm. This Q&A -- https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/qanda/data/faq/topics/M... -- suggests it's been kicking around as printing and journalism jargon since at least the 1980s, and I would expect probably earlier.
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replyLLMs 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.
replyI think this is a great idea.
replyGCP employees heart rate spiking at the title.
replyCould you instead use any two numerical digits? Then you've got a tagging system with up to 100 tags.
replyThis 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
replyadd tk when you hit a wall (abbreviated from 'to come', yet spelled with k as tc appears in many words)
I slice my latke with a pocketknife.
replyI 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:
replyRatios (count / total) and percentages:
PG: 0.00047%
TK: 0.00046%
KK: 0.00045%
HQ: 0.00042%
FN: 0.00042%
True, but have you ever sliced your LATKE with a POCKETKNIFE?
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