looking for "optimal weighting" algorithm

[Michael Hudson]

Alex Martelli <aleaxit at yahoo.com> writes:

> I _know_ there's a decent algorithm to solve the following problem,
> but I don't recall its name and thus can't rapidly google for the 
> details... can somebody help?

AdaBoost?  Not sure, but it's not totally off the map.

Cheers,
M.

-- 
  > I'll just wait for the community to discuss the proposal and 
  > agree on some way to count votes, then count them.
  The most recent estimates by astronomers is that the age of the 
  universe is essentially unbounded.        -- GvR and Martijn Faassen