I have a large frozen haggis that I'd like to use for dinner Saturday night.  when do i start to thaw it, and whats the safest method of thawing to prevent both food borne illness and to preserve quality of the product?  I already read the question about cooking haggis from frozen, and decided I don't want to do that.
Since reading the answers to my question about  I've been good about giving my meat time to defrost in the refrigerator. However, my plans for tonight have changed and I'd like to defrost some ground beef that is completely frozen for dinner this evening. What are my options to do so quickly and safely?
Customizing the output of Compass sprites Understanding a derivation of bias correction for the Adam optimizer I'm reading  about the Adam optimizer and went up until the bias-correction section; in the paper they estimate the bias of the moving average of the squared gradient. These are the equations they use:    Where $v_{t}$ is the moving average of gradient squared, $g_{i}$ is gradient at the $i^{th}$ iteration and $\beta_{2}$ is a moving average parameter.  I don't understand how they make any of these transitions from the first row to the second and on to the third one. Could someone explain what rules are allowing them to do so ? Is there a way to hide pictures from being shown in Gallery Whenever I play a PC game with the directional keys, I can only press two buttons at a time.  For instance if I am playing a shooter like R-Type, I cannot hold down the fire button while moving diagonally at the same time.  The computer simply ignores the extra button press.  How do I remove this limit so I can shoot while moving diagonally?  This limitation seems to apply for every game.  I am running Windows 7 if it makes any difference.  I noticed the same problem back when I used Windows XP. In normal line integration, from what I understand, you are measuring the area underneath $f(x,y)$ along a curve in the $x\text{-}y$ plane from point $a$ to point $b$.  But what is being measured with complex line integration, when you go from a point $z_1$ to a point $z_2$ in the complex plane?  With regular line integration I can see $f(x,y)$ maps $(x,y)$ to a point on the $z$ axis directly above above/below $(x,y)$.  But in the complex case, when you map from the domain $Z$ to the image $W$, you are mapping from $\mathbb{R^2}$ to $\mathbb{R^2}$ ...it is not mapping a point to 'directly above/below'...so I don't have any intuition of what is happening with complex line integration. example of compact operator Let $E=l^p=\left\{x=\left(x_n\right): x_n\in\mathbb{R}, \sum_{1}^{\infty}\left|x_n\right|^p&lt;\infty\right\}$ with $1\le p&lt;\infty$, $\left\|x\right\|_E=\left(\sum_{1}^{\infty}\left|x_n\right|^p\right)^{1/p}.$ Let $\left(\lambda_n\right)$ is a bounded sequence in $\mathbb{R}$ and consider the operator $T$ defined by $$T(x)=\left(\lambda_1x_x,\ldots,\lambda_nx_n,\ldots\right)$$ where $x\in l^p$. Prove that $T$ is a compact operator from $E$ to $E$ iff $\lambda_n\rightarrow 0$.  Can anyone give me some hints to solve this problem? Thank you! Find the value of $P(1)$ Let $P (x) = x^2 + bx + c$, where $b$ and $c$ are integer.       If $P(x)$ is a factor of both $x^4 + 6x^2 + 25$ and $3x^4 + 4x^2 + 28x  + 5$, find the value of $P(1)$.   I am not being able to solve this.Some hints/suggestions?  Tell me if I can edit to improve this question.I could'nt try much.Got stuck. I have a list of structs and I want to change one element. For example :  MyList.Add(new MyStruct("john"); MyList.Add(new MyStruct("peter");   Now I want to change one element:  MyList[1].Name = "bob"   However, whenever I try and do this I get the following error:     Cannot modify the return value of   System.Collections.Generic.List.this[int]‘ because it is not   a variable   If I use a list of classes, the problem doesn't occur.  I guess the answer has to do with structs being a value type.  So, if I have a list of structs should I treat them as read-only? If I need to change elements in a list then I should use classes and not structs? Flair: 500 Internal Server Error - http://stackexchange.com/error?aspxerrorpath=/users/flair/378431.png Using AMPScript, I want to pass from a URL Attribute lookup variables and use these variables in my LookupOrderRows function.   The challenge is that not all lookup variables have to be passed by the URL e.g I might lookup just 'office' or I could also lookup both 'office' and 'score.   I've tried several approaches of Concat the string etc - but can't see to make the lookup work.  Has anyone had any success performing similar?   IF not empty( Requestparameter("office") ) then  Set @field1_name = "OFFICE" Set @field1_value = Requestparameter("office")  EndIf  IF not empty( Requestparameter("specialism") ) then  Set @field2_name = "SPECIALISM" Set @field2_value = Requestparameter("specialism")  EndIf  IF not empty( Requestparameter("score") ) then  Set @field3_name = "SCORE" Set @field3_value = Requestparameter("score")  EndIf   set @rows = LookupOrderedRows(@LeadsDE,0,"[Engagement Activity Date] desc",@Field1_Name,@Field1_Value,@Field2_Name,@Field2_Value,@Field3_Name,@Field3_Value)   My current solution is a lot If then statements and combinations i.e. :  /* OFFICE ONLY*/ IF NOT EMPTY(@input_office) AND EMPTY(@input_organisation) AND EMPTY(@input_specialism)  AND EMPTY(@input_score) then     set @rows = LookupOrderedRows(@LeadsDE,0,"[Engagement Activity Date] desc","OFFICE",@input_office) ENDIF  /* OFFICE + ORG*/ IF NOT EMPTY(@input_office) AND NOT EMPTY(@input_organisation) AND EMPTY(@input_specialism)  AND EMPTY(@input_score) then     set @rows = LookupOrderedRows(@LeadsDE,0,"[Engagement Activity Date] desc","OFFICE",@input_office,"ORGANISATION_NAME",@input_organisation) ENDIF /* OFFICE + ORG + SPECIALISM */ IF NOT EMPTY(@input_office) AND NOT EMPTY(@input_organisation) AND NOT EMPTY(@input_specialism)  AND EMPTY(@input_score) then     set @rows = LookupOrderedRows(@LeadsDE,0,"[Engagement Activity Date] desc","OFFICE",@input_office,"ORGANISATION_NAME",@input_organisation,"SPECIALISM",@input_specialism) ENDIF /* OFFICE + ORG + SCORE */ IF NOT EMPTY(@input_office) AND NOT EMPTY(@input_organisation) AND EMPTY(@input_specialism)  AND NOT EMPTY(@input_score) then     set @rows = LookupOrderedRows(@LeadsDE,0,"[Engagement Activity Date] desc","OFFICE",@input_office,"ORGANISATION_NAME",@input_organisation,"Engagement Score",@input_score) ENDIF /* OFFICE + ORG + SPECIALISM + SCORE  */ IF NOT EMPTY(@input_office) AND NOT EMPTY(@input_organisation) AND NOT EMPTY(@input_specialism)  AND EMPTY(@input_score) then     set @rows = LookupOrderedRows(@LeadsDE,0,"[Engagement Activity Date] desc","OFFICE",@input_office,"ORGANISATION_NAME",@input_organisation,"SPECIALISM",@input_specialism,"Engagement Score",@input_score) ENDIF  IF NOT EMPTY(@input_office) AND EMPTY(@input_organisation) AND NOT EMPTY(@input_specialism)  AND EMPTY(@input_score) then     set @rows = LookupOrderedRows(@LeadsDE,0,"[Engagement Activity Date] desc","OFFICE",@input_office,"SPECIALISM",@input_specialism) ENDIF  IF NOT EMPTY(@input_office) AND EMPTY(@input_organisation) AND NOT EMPTY(@input_specialism)  AND NOT EMPTY(@input_score) then     set @rows = LookupOrderedRows(@LeadsDE,0,"[Engagement Activity Date] desc","OFFICE",@input_office,"SPECIALISM",@input_specialism,"Engagement Score",@input_score) ENDIF  IF NOT EMPTY(@input_office) AND EMPTY(@input_organisation) AND EMPTY(@input_specialism)  AND NOT EMPTY(@input_score) then     set @rows = LookupOrderedRows(@LeadsDE,0,"[Engagement Activity Date] desc","OFFICE",@input_office,"Engagement Score",@input_score) ENDIF Non-root login on EC2 instance Let $G$ be a simply connected algebraic group defined over $C$.   Note : I see the definition of simply connected as "Every isogeny to $G$ is an isomorphism" as given in Hochschild's  "Basic Theory of Algebraic Groups and Lie algebras".   $C$ is an algebraically closed field.   Please help me realise the follwoing things provided they are true:   $G_C$ (the $C$-points of $G$) is simply connected as well. $Lie(G) \cong Lie(G_C)$    Thanks ! Wikipedia lists the following pseudocode for HMAC:  function hmac (key, message)     if (length(key) &gt; blocksize) then         key = hash(key) // keys longer than blocksize are shortened     end if     if (length(key) &lt; blocksize) then         // keys shorter than blocksize are zero-padded ('∥' is concatenation)          key = key ∥ [0x00 * (blocksize - length(key))]      end if      // Where blocksize is that of the underlying hash function        o_key_pad = [0x5c * blocksize] ⊕ key      // Where ⊕ is exclusive or (XOR)     i_key_pad = [0x36 * blocksize] ⊕ key       // Where '∥' is concatenation        return hash(o_key_pad ∥ hash(i_key_pad ∥ message))  end function   Why are they there?  How were they chosen?  It seems to me that  $hash(key + hash(message))$ (where + is concatenation) would suffice.    Obviously I'm missing something.  What is it? Whether the players killed a mage and got his spellbook(s) or they met with a nice wizard who let him or her learn a spell from his spellbook, can a player prepare a spell from a spellbook that isn't his or hers?  I'm asking because the PHB p. 114 says:     [...] Preparing a new list of wizard spells requires time spent studying your spellbook and memorizing the incantations and gestures you must make to cast the spell: at least 1 minute per spell level for each spell on your list.    emphasis mine   Further, the block on the left as a Copying a Spell into the Book ("the" Book as in "your" Book, since it appears in the block titled Your Spellbook), which explains how you can copy a spell from one book to another, assuming the book is from a stranger, it cost more and takes more time. It actually says:     [...] deciphering the unique system of notation used by the system of notation of the wizard who wrote it. [...]   It continues saying that you have to learn the various parts of the spell (verbose, material, gesture.)  This makes it sounds like a wizard would have a really hard time to prepare a spell from another's spellbook. Is that the case? I’m using tikz-cd for diagrams, and have a medium-sized diagram that I want to re-use several times.  However, when I try using a definition like:  \newcommand{\myarrow}{$\begin{tikzcd} A \ar{r} &amp; B \end{tikzcd}$   I get an error:  ERROR: Package pgfbasematrix Error: Single ampersand used with wrong catcode.   Is it possible to put a tikz-cd diagram into a defined command somehow? If the Standard Normal PDF is $$f(x) = \frac{1}{\sqrt{2\pi}} e^{-x^2/2}$$  and the CDF is  $$F(x) = \frac{1}{\sqrt{2\pi}} \int_{-\infty}^x e^{-x^2/2}\mathrm{d}x\,,$$  how does this turn into an error function of $z$? I want to get a 360 and don't know wether to get the bigger (250GB), newer, more expensive Elite, or get one of the older, smaller (120GB), last gen ones. I know the arcade is going to be too small to save anything useful  How much hard disk space is recommend? What else is stored besides games? In today's pattern recognition class my professor talked about PCA, eigenvectors and eigenvalues.   I understood the mathematics of it. If I'm asked to find eigenvalues etc. I'll do it correctly like a machine. But I didn't understand it. I didn't get the purpose of it. I didn't get the feel of it.        I strongly believe in the following quote:     You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. -- Albert Einstein   Well, I can't explain these concepts to a layman or grandma.   Why PCA, eigenvectors &amp; eigenvalues? What was the need for these concepts? How would you explain these to a layman? How to include audio file in PDF Limit of $\frac{\log(n!)}{n\log(n)}$ as $n\to\infty$.