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Catfishing a conman back on dating app days after jail release

BBC News

Within days of being released from his seventh prison term for romance fraud, Raymond McDonald was back on a dating app looking for his next victim. Over more than 20 years he had racked up 58 convictions, mostly for fraud and theft, while telling lies on an industrial scale and taking thousands of pounds from women for holidays and weddings which were never going to happen. This time when he went looking, the BBC was waiting. He thought he was having a date with Kaye, but instead found himself being approached by a BBC reporter and camera crew. He had met Kaye online and, calling himself Rob, told her he was a deep-sea diver looking for a wife.





WhenDoFlatMinimaOptimizers Work?

Neural Information Processing Systems

Theoretical and empirical studies [21,77,9,55,49,5,12]postulate that such flatter regions generalize better than sharper minima, e.g., due to the flat minimizer's robustness against loss function shifts between trainandtestdata,asillustrated inFig.1.



FormulatingRobustnessAgainstUnforeseenAttacks

Neural Information Processing Systems

Our bound addresses the second question; it suggests that learning algorithms that bias towards models with small variation across the source threat model exhibit smaller drop in robustness to particularunforeseenattacks.



Sutton's predictions v Gladiators star Apollo

BBC News

Having won only one of their past six Premier League games and drawn 2-2 at Tottenham after being 2-0 up, can second-placed Manchester City get back on track at Liverpool on Sunday? I wouldn't rule City out of anything at the moment said BBC Sport football expert Chris Sutton. But the way they folded in the second half against Tottenham was a real worry. Sutton is making predictions for all 380 Premier League games this season, against AI, BBC Sport readers and a variety of guests. His guest for week 25 is Gladiators star Apollo, real name Alex Gray, who supports Newcastle . Before becoming a Gladiator, the 6ft 6in Gray played Premiership rugby for three teams and also American Football for NFL side Atlanta Falcons.