dimbl(1)

💖 NAME 💖

dimbl — literally Distributed Timbl ✨ bestie, it's timbl but it got a whole glow-up with threads 🧚💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

dimbl [timbl options] [-S <num of threads>]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so dimbl is timbl but make it parallel, no cap. it takes the classification task and runs it across multiple threads 🧵🧵🧵 the way it does this is by splitting up the Instancebase into parts, and those parts get handled in parallel, all at the same time, like a group chat where everyone's typing at once 💬✨

every test instance gets tested against each partial Instancebase. then the results get merged back together, and then the k Nearest Neighbours are calculated 👑 that's the whole vibe. periodt.

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🌸 NOTES 🌸

• dimbl only works for the IB1 variants of timbl. like, only those. don't come at it with anything else 🙈
• Not all timbl options are fully supported. some of them just do not pass the vibe check 💀
• Documentation is lacking. 😭 yes bestie, the manpage is telling on itself, we respect the honesty fr fr

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -S <threads> — run the server on threads parallel threads 🧵✨

all timbl options are documented in timbl(1) 📖

dimbl handles most of them in the same way as timbl, except for

-i filename

and

-I filename

• -I will create threads Instancebase files and store their names in filename together with the name of the weighting file 💾🫶
• -i will use such a file to read back in threads Instancebases for a classifying task. The -S option is ignored in that case 👀 dimbl will use the number of files found in filename. so like, filename is the main character there 💅

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💀 BUGS 💀

possibly 🙈

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

• Ko van der Sloot — Timbl@uvt.nl
• Antal van den Bosch — Timbl@uvt.nl

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

timbl(1) ⭐

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that's the whole page bestie, go forth and parallelise 💖✨

cute lil sign-off: this one comes from the General Commands Manual and it was dated 2014 december 02 🎀 so yeah, it's an older icon but it still slays 🫶