<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></title><description><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link><image><url>http://direct.ecency.com/logo512.png</url><title>RSS Feed</title><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link></image><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:56:17 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="http://direct.ecency.com/@vishnucr92/rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Say No to Soggy Cookies - The Art of Milk Dunking]]></title><description><![CDATA[Haven't we all had that time of the day when our cookies just crumble away into nothingness when we dunk it in milk? Worry no more, science is here to help. Surprisingly, an American scientist by the name]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/news/@vishnucr92/say-no-to-soggy-cookies-the-art-of-milk-dunking</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/news/@vishnucr92/say-no-to-soggy-cookies-the-art-of-milk-dunking</guid><category><![CDATA[news]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[vishnucr92]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 09 Aug 2017 18:24:30 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/S5Eokt4BcQdk2bRb9gatmwEsdvNEZvoNxpmqV9EwFy9okoGL5uhbNfwriHHzenu5m9fUKQJ?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do You Plan On Buying a House in San Francisco? Buy a Street Instead!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Husband and wife investors Tina Lam and Michael Cheng bought Presidio Terrace - a private street in a wealthy neighborhood of San Franciso - for $90,000 in a city-run auction. Sounds too good to be true?]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/news/@vishnucr92/do-you-plan-on-buying-a-house-in-san-francisco-buy-a-street-instead</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/news/@vishnucr92/do-you-plan-on-buying-a-house-in-san-francisco-buy-a-street-instead</guid><category><![CDATA[news]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[vishnucr92]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 08 Aug 2017 15:17:21 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/23KQwnog7Q1jpM7UNBC1Mwkzv3uXL2Gdn1uiSKQa1SNZL5HgX8eYkEdpsLTstdGpxZ9DB6GbGRJpvwFyeXqTHTV17fctG4v?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Future Is Here #1 - Algorithms That Understand Sarcasm]]></title><description><![CDATA[Researchers at MIT have trained an algorithm that works on deep learning, to understand sarcasm through emojis. Dubbed DeepMoji, it used 1.2 billion tweets that contained some combination of the 64 most]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/news/@vishnucr92/the-future-is-here-1-algorithms-that-understand-sarcasm</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/news/@vishnucr92/the-future-is-here-1-algorithms-that-understand-sarcasm</guid><category><![CDATA[news]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[vishnucr92]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 08 Aug 2017 14:53:57 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/C3TZQzkfwDoPm4Wdo6C2YqdxGwGFZPXVfsJVZajgtA4Z2E5oCk5qSAf7pvqNPfisrNCAu6s7CUNhBkXHTnqRhmykCEEtXFQubhghLTcFRJcA1RcTQULorsp?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sunset Silence]]></title><description><![CDATA[It is a beautiful daffodil on the altar, yellow and pretty like the west's sun. 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