Josh. The next roster is Abish Matthew. Abish Matthew, ladies and gentlemen, says that he's religious, which is what all virgins above a certain age call themselves. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the stage a man who needs an introduction but doesn't deserve one, Abish Matthew. Ladies and gentlemen, she ducked next to the Pillsbury Doughboy. Give out pork, munch, bounty, eclairs or snickers.  Appreciate cinema, something like this. Our retraction for the evening. Ajan Kapoor and Ranveer Singh. Yeah? There as a child, every time Sonam Kapoor, your cousin went out on a date, you used to join her as the third wheel. That is the first. Had four tyres. But congratulations, you are slim now. So Naqshi and Sinha, congratulations there. But there are all rumours that's not true because you know you're not supposed to freaking touch only sad person in the country every time Virat Kohli scores a century. Thank you so much for having me. Next roster is Aditi Mittal. One girl on the panel. So that Ranveer Singh has someone to joke off to. Please give her up for this lady and gentleman, Aditi Mittal. Thank you so much for having me on this show.  Going down on a woman is bending over and asking Moushee, how many potatoes are there? Only we knew Hindi. Yeah. Rajiv, my son. Rajiv. Rajiv, I'm not saying that you're fat.  You know, a ceiling fan of your work. Like a stool, a rope and a ceiling fan. Abish.  She becomes a virgin again. Over-entitled assholes on my right. To the over-entitled assholes on my left. Karan, I feel like the older Jaya Bachar was waiting outside with a thali. Arjun, I think your greatest role so far has been your career. Arjun, let's, I mean we can't forget. You failed when it started.  What did you say? Ranveer is here. Deepika is dating Ranveer as we all know. It's great. Deepika, as a woman, I want to say thank you. You're taking one for the team. Thank you so much. My name is Adityan. Thank you, Adityan. Pichai Muzho. The next one is Rajiv Mazan. I wanted to watch a pasty, high-pitched Diva being clueless about films. I'd watch Anupama Chopra. Give her up for the human loofah. It's good to be here. Look at Karan. Don't have a movie coming out any time soon. But how you pay me for good reviews? Here's a thought. You wouldn't have to pay a critic if you'd actually pay it for a decent fucking... went from hating Anurag Kashyap to people who know Karan Johar for work. AIB is here. Get to the stars of the night. Arjun Kapoor and Ranveer Singh. Ranveer, you're so slutty. Every time I start a rumor about you, turns out it's already true.  Aurangzeb. So he could disappoint his father twice. All jokes aside, thank you for having me here. Arjun, Ranveer, this was great fun. And it's also the only time I'll be using those two words to describe anything that you're involved with. Thank you, register. Oh, I know. Ladies and gentlemen, this is such a good move. It's the multi-talented... There's so many of your movies panned out to the NRI audience. I made so much fun of you, Karan. I want to talk about the positives about Karan Johar. Karan Johar gives so many helpless actors a chance in the industry. So many actors who have no connection with the industry. Karan launches them. You know, like Alia Bhatt counts themselves if it goes on for Karan Johar.  Honey from the rich to the rich. What do you mean?  What is wrong with you? But of course, after co-founding AIB, I've had the pleasure of working with the finest, most talented, hardworking and funniest comics in this country. Also you, Rohan.  Rohan, don't listen to those people. Those people are jealous. Those people are petty. Those people are right. But don't listen to them, Rohan. Ashi Shakya is here, ladies and gentlemen.  It is not cool that so many people came here and made jokes about you being ugly. It's not cool. Ashi, she's the hottest guy in AIB, alright? You are the hottest guy in AIB because black absorbs more heat. Scientifically, he's the hottest guy. That's all I'm saying. I personally think you're the best female comic on the panel today. It's so nice. Aditi, you're so Punjabi. You're my lingerie. You wear a bra. One bit takes reminds me, Rajiv Masam is here.  Why do you do that? Like if I would describe you, I would not say, Rajiv is the binocular zenith of bio-pollinating which I am diaspora. I would just say, I would just say, I would just say, I would just say, I would just say, From requirements of one, between two requirements Rajiv, your grandson for you Son of producer, An odpowrewt, Child of actor, TV, Brotherhood! Was it tough to create a Bollywood movie? You put on a Krish costume and danced on the linking road for a day. You don't have to do that man. At least, wait for your next few left Look at Arjun smiling. Arjun, smile for the audience. Smile for the audience. The creepiest smile in the world, just smile. Arjun, your smile is so creepy. That means Shakti Kabur looks at it. Even he checks his top button. Like that. I said I would rather go. Sure. Wow, you're so smart. Thank God you're not a writer. But easily the creepiest thing today on the desk is Ranveer Singh.    You didn't get turned on until Deepika used the pepper spray on you. Karan, you approached Ranveer Singh for one of your films, Shuddhi. Ranveer of course took the audition because he thought it was called Fuddhi. Arjun, I'm not saying you're doing badly, but the last time I saw Kapoor struggle so hard, I really was trying to speak English at the Oscars. Oh. I wanna play a charade. Even Prime Secrets was like, shut up, what are you doing? In conclusion, ladies and gentlemen, we have always wanted to push the envelope in the genre of comedy. Maybe that with the video with Arya or with our first video with Yash Raj. Or today with Insult Comedy. And this would not have been possible with our two of the coolest young kids in Bollywood.   He not thanked me. But at least pretty much. I like it like that. Harums are my thing. Arjun Kapoor and Ranveer auditioned for Shruti. He was already bumped. A sweet virginal boy. Abhishek's father regretted his birth so much that when he saw him for the first time he turned to his wife and he said Kalsi Sirf Enela. Tanmay Bhat, ladies and gentlemen. Tanmay Bhat, thank you for letting us have this show inside you. I am not saying Tanmay Bhat is fat. But Tanmay Bhat doesn't have a bath. Tanmay Bhat has a besarjan. Ladies and gentlemen, Tanmay Bhat's favorite superhero is Tarla Dalal. Guys, the only reason Thamba started the AIB podcast is because Tanmay likes to talk after sex. The first four rows didn't get that joke because they don't follow the AIB podcast. Yeah, industry.  The Powerpuff Girls. You're dating the sister of Alia Bhat, Shaheen Bhat. You're the most pointless addition to the Bhat family since Vikram. But seriously, I mean, sorry at all.     So you're sort of like current job after a breakup.  Rajeev, I was hoping that your jokes would be funny towards the second half, but much like your life, it was quite pointless your performance. In fact, your performance was so one-tone and one-dimensional, that if I watched you in 3D, you'd still be flat, motherfucker. Ladies and gentlemen, dear Rajeev, half of us find us great. Oh, Christopher Nolan.  You know, Baba, honestly, when Raghu and Rajeev were born, for the first time in the world, they made two jokes.  Most of them did a fake show. Out of 20 of them, they went to fake countries and made a fake show and made 100 crore audience a fake show. Raghu, what I'm trying to say is... Seriously, what I'm trying to say is...  Raghu, let me tell you something from the bottom of my heart. Do you move or do you shout on your land?  Thank you for ripping on us. The truth is, I genuinely am quite depressed about Kildil flopping. Why, Baba? You know what you mean? What did you mean? According to me, your career needs a mind-blowing chakacha, glamorous dharma film. My position is...    Not me, baby. So tonight at the AIV Naka, these two deviants took a whole bunch of insults.  Not because they're masochists, or well, not just because they're masochists, but what are you doing? Something. But, because we're here for some very important causes as well, and tonight I'm proud to say we've raised close to 14 lakh rupees to be distributed across charities, across three charities. Ranbir Singh will be ready to walk in power and give India, which as we know is quite a thing he would like to do. Arjun Kapoor will donate to the Tata Memorial Center and my contribution will go towards being human because even my choice of charity is a cliche. Thank you to our panel, Raghuram, Aditi Mittal, Abish, Matthew, Rajesh, Masan, and of course, All India Bucks show, ladies and gentlemen, for putting together tonight's show.  It takes a ton of guts to take that sound of pounding. We sing the song and we sing it together. Come here. Okay, it goes like this. One, two, one, two, three, four. It was an absolutely fantastic roast. My cheeks hurt. My face hurts. It hurts from laughing. That was way better than I was expecting. Man, that was good. Why are people offended by it? I know they said offensive things, but... Come on. It was an unjoking form. There's certain jokes that could have never been done here. No, in a roast they could have been. No. Sure.  Yes, Pete Davidson didn't do it. To who? I can almost guarantee it wouldn't happen here. Unless it's a black comic to another black person. I don't know. I think... We have a very different... No holds barred in roasts. It's literally no holds barred. That killed a black man. Get away with it. Oh, 9-11 joke. That was so bad. The ISIS joke. You're so repulsive. You were an altar boy for seven years and not one priest would molest you. I love roasts. The best thing you've been inside of is to peek a project. I love roasts so much. Oh, man. In all sincerity. In all sincerity. I think there's only two reasons that people get so offended by this kind of comedy that they take it personally, is they have a very particular bias that they will not put down or they simply aren't at a place of intelligence quotient to recognize that the exact opposite is happening. You don't roast people unless you actually care about them. And oftentimes when someone is saying jokes that are insulting, like I have heard straight up, I've heard, I can think of so many different things that jokes have been said seriously. Like Bill Barr has said something or Ricky Gervais who've said something that was definitively insulting to something I hold very precious. I just don't understand why people like say boycott them. They don't let them talk. I've never understood it. This was so freaking funny. I'm sad they don't do more. Obviously I don't know if NIB is not around anymore. But man, do I wish somebody would come up with a way because obviously there's so many people in the industry you could, I mean, everything about Kieran Johar could be, he could be himself. Yeah. On your own cash, they should be like on your own slash Kieran Johar roasts. And speaks volumes of the person to allow themselves to be roasted. So like, somebody, like, that's exactly who I was just going to reference. If Big B allowed himself to be roasted, everybody would have such a hard time doing it. They love him so much. They love him so much. And would, it would be so, it's just, it's another side of people's personalities to see. Yeah. Um, I, this was fantastic. Maybe we can put one on one day. Yeah. This was fantastic. Yeah. It was. So funny. Really good. I'm sad that AIB's gone. Yeah. I think they had some. They've done some great stuff. I don't know who it was, but I think they said someone with me too happened. Yeah. I don't know who, I don't know who exactly was in their, in their corporation, but I know it was something along that lines. Yeah. But yeah, they've done, their content was so good and this was so great. They should do, India should do more of these. Absolutely. There's so many artists who you could just roast and it would be so fun. So fun. It's just fun too. It's fun. It's great advertising. It's great social relations. It gets you past all of the other things that they do. And then obviously for this, I think it's pretty clear that all of the ticket sales went to charity. So this kind of event, it's wonderful. That was great. So good. Well, if there's more of that kind of stuff. I don't think there is, but if there is, please send it my way. Yes. I do love roasts. Yes. You guys should roast us. That'd be fun. Well, they do in the comments. In the comments. In the comments. All the time. Josh!


Hi everyone, my name is Marin and this is a functional group update for the build team. We'll go quickly through the OKRs that we had in Q4 and Q1 for this year and I'll just quickly introduce some team changes and we'll do questions in the end. First of all, we have a new hire starting from January 1st, Ahmad Hafan joined us as a build engineer and he will be helping us out at the beginning with the helm charts. Our hiring plan also allows us for a one-way hire in 2018 and that should be just enough to get our projected goals done this year. So I want to go through OKRs now because we are at the start of the year and I want to present what we achieved in 2017 Q4 and what we plan on doing in Q1 this year. So someone is unmuted, I would appreciate if you could mute yourself, okay I cannot see who that is but I'll move on. So one of the tasks that we had was decreasing the build times from 60 minutes to 30 minutes. Why was this important for us? Every time we need to try a change out that would mean a developer engineer would have to wait for 60 minutes plus to get their changes tested from end to end basically. We invested a lot of time there and we managed to complete it 100% and we have our builds running under 30 minutes. Just to give you a bit of a, I'm still hearing someone, can someone take a look who's unmuted? Might be Haydn. Okay, I don't hear it anymore. Anyway to give you just an overview why this was important was we also moved to GCP where we have a separate project only for build machines and I've looked at the numbers, so the cost and the amount of machines we created in January. Every executed package build cost us around 2 euros. Doesn't sound that much but we have thousands of builds every month. What is really interesting there is that only 6.8% of all of the package builds were release related meaning they were for public consumption. Everything else was created during our testing. I don't really want to give the full numbers that might be a sensitive topic there but just think of the amount of time we saved by achieving this OCR so I'm really proud about achieving this one. Next OCR we did was create an integration test for Metamost. Why did we want to do this? Well we have this integration out of the box in the package with Metamost and during 2017 this integration broke a couple of times either due to changes in Metamost or changes in the package or changes in GitLab itself. So we decided it would be nice to extend our GitLab QA project a bit and add this integration test. This was 100% completed and I don't know if it's because we didn't break anything or because we have the test but we haven't seen an integration being broken at least from the package side. So I think it's a beneficial change that we achieved here. The next OCR was establish baseline metric for install time and so on. We only did 10% of it. Basically the late start on this issue I think something like mid-December meant that we didn't even have the time to properly discuss what the OCR is. So this was a complete miss on our part and something that I think was a good lesson for us. The next OCR was build GCP deploying a mechanism on Kubernetes for the migration. I would say even in the best of cases this was very much a moonshot to achieve in one quarter especially considering that we started in November so after everyone returned from the summit. That meant we had like a month and a half to do a project that changes the complete deployment strategy of GitLab. So to say this was ambitious it is an understatement but we still managed to do around 30% because by the end of December if you struggled a bit and if you stumbled upon certain things that we wrote you would be able to deploy GitLab using the charts. We did learn a couple of things. So let's see what we actually learned. In Q1 this year we want to upgrade some of the internals of the package. That might not sound that complex but it requires a lot of testing and it's important to stay up-to-date to the upstream changes of course security and it brings a number of changes that we could use to optimize the package. What we learned this time around though was start on time. So we started with this one and we already have 50% of it done. We are up-to-date with the upstream omnibus and we started working on upgrading the internal omnibus GitLab chef. Next thing measure upgrade installation time between two GitLab versions. This one might sound familiar to the one in Q4 2017 and it might sound like that because it is exactly that just worded a bit differently. We do want to know how much time it takes to install GitLab between versions. So right now what we started doing is we started off by creating an epic a small thing but we started working on the actual issue discussing the ideas we have and I think the work already started even though it's supposed to be starting next week. One of the things that we still do manually and it's taking us a lot of time is checking up the libraries that we ship for security vulnerabilities. We want to make a plan so this is establishing a roadmap so creating a plan how we can automatically scan our package and check out whether a library has a vulnerability. This is still being worked on as discussion just yet but we are planning to leverage more of the newly acquired security scanning knowledge that we have starting from yesterday I think. So we'll be talking with that team pretty soon about that. And now we defined another OCR that sounds really familiar to one of the old ones but we now have a clear idea of what we want to do. We want to have the Elm chart in alpha and we have a solid plan on how we can accomplish that. What I think helped in this case was that we after we set some base in Q4 we finally knew what we were up against so we could actually define it a bit better. And what we're also doing this time around is we're doing weekly demos where the presenter is testing all the changes that are made by following a script. If you're interested you can see the record is in the Google Drive and also you can join the demos if you want to there on Friday an hour before the team call. That's about it from my side. I'll take any questions that we might have. Thus this means that every Docker container I triggered costs two euros probably a bit more Joshua than that but the package itself that has to be built for you to boot up a container definitely did cost two euros. Someone says it's always easier to add a test to an existing suit. That's correct. Awesome. I don't see any more questions. Thank you very much for following and see you at the team call. Bye.


Hello everyone and welcome. I'm James Milan. This is our series, The ABCs of LGBTQ Plus. And our episode today is Concerns Etiquette and Allyship. And to guide us through this, I've got a couple of guests here in the studio. Noah Stang Osborn is here with us, as is Valerie Overton. So, if you don't mind, once again, I'm going to ask you to introduce yourselves. Noah, we'll start with you first. Thanks. My name is Noah Stang Osborn. My pronouns are he, him, or they, them. I'm a college student and member of Lex Pride. And I'm Valerie Overton. My pronouns are she, her. I'm co-chair of Lex Pride, which is an organization that's based in Lexington that works through advanced social justice for the LGBTQ Plus community. Okay. Thank you for being here. Today, what I wanted to talk about is we know that there's plenty of hostility, discrimination, and other kinds of challenges and difficulties and things that LGBTQ people have to deal with on a daily basis. We want to focus instead today on how it is that we as a community can make things better for LGBTQ people as they move through their lives each day. So, when it comes to etiquette, for instance, what should people who are supportive be thinking about in their interactions with folks who may identify anywhere in the LGBTQ spectrum? I think one of the big things is that there are LGBTQ people around you and to take that as a given. And I think a lot of people forget that or they say, oh, I don't want to assume and instead assume that you are straight and cisgender. But I think that that is a good starting point. Okay. And cisgender again means? Someone whose gender identity matches their gender assigned at birth. Okay. Really? So, I think that what we see in terms of statistics is that the proportion of the population that identifies as LGBTQ plus in some way keeps growing, not because we're magically all becoming LGBTQ plus, but for a variety of historical and social reasons. It was harder for people to be willing to acknowledge those identities when there was less language and when there was more repression. But today what we see is that consistently what we see in large scale national surveys is that 30% of people, young people in the ages of 18 to 25, identify as something other than cisgender and heterosexual. And so when you think about that, it's a goodly proportion of the population. So it's really important to assume, actively assume that there are LGBTQ plus people as Noah was saying, that the numbers really bear that out. And whether or not you know it, you encounter LGBT people in your life every day. And just as a brief aside, I'm struck by what you were saying that this is, it is not that there is a sudden flourishing or explosion of actual LGBTQ you know, identity assumption in the current world, but instead that there is simply we are, we are, we are, we have opened the doors and windows in a sense so that people can find both the language and the tolerance from others to be who they really are. At the same time, that's happened, there have been just as many people with these identities in the past, there was just no way for them to make that apparent to themselves and others. Is that? Yeah, I mean, that's largely true. And, you know, what we see, for example, is the silent generation surveys typically show 2.5%. And the baby boomer generation about 5% and so forth. And so that, what you just described is one of the major reasons for that, probably the biggest reason. And, you know, sadly, there are other reasons too. So we also have fewer of the older LGBTQ folks still alive either because of suicide or homicide or HIV and AIDS. And so we, historically, we have lost a lot of our numbers through those other causes as well. But I think very, really important for people to understand that this is, this is not a contemporary phenomenon alone. It is simply that we are hopefully treating it just the situation differently than has been the case in the past. The history is actually quite fascinating. And I know you know a lot about the history too. But you see historical artifacts, and I won't go on and on, but from ancient times with pictures and other kinds of references to LGBTQ people. So these identities have been in existence as long as people have. And those who wish, and I imagine there are plenty in our audience who would fall into this category, who wish to be supportive of LGBTQ rights, privileges, and full freedom to be who they are. What are some of the main things that we can do to promote that? I think using people's pronouns is a really big thing. So if you're meeting someone for the first time and you're going to have a real conversation with them, you should introduce yourself with your name in your pronouns and ask them for their name and their pronouns and really try to use them if you need to practice alone, practice with a friend and just quit corrections when you mess up like, oh, I meant they, I guess if you're talking about me, that is really big in terms of acceptance and correcting other people when they misgender trans people. Yeah, that's a really important one because, you know, my son who is transgender used to describe it as being feeling like you were punched in the gut when people would misgender him. And it's especially hurtful when it's done deliberately. But if it's done accidentally, you know, again, just the quick apology and move on or quick correction and move on. I think, you know, along with kind of assuming that there are LGBTQ plus people around you, it's also kind of thinking about kind of the assumptions that you're making. And so, for example, a lot of times, you know, if I go into a group, a new group of people who don't know me, people will often assume that I'm heterosexual, they might ask about my husband or something like that. And it's like, well, he doesn't exist. Never had one, never want one. Because I'm lesbian. And it's just, it's, I think that just being having that awareness of not assuming the gender of a partner or a family member or who you're attracted to is just a general good practice as well. So not using gendered language, but using non gendered language when referring to a spouse or a family member or a sibling and those kinds of things. I'm struck by what you were just saying by the fact that your own reaction to that hypothetical situation, which I'm sure is not hypothetical in your life, that your reaction is one that comes from a place of humor as well, right? Where you are correcting that misperception in a way that that is non, again, employs humor and cheerfulness without aggression in a sense. How hard is it to deal with the onslaught of these kinds of misperceptions that you have to deal with? I assume on a daily basis. How hard is it to respond with humor as opposed to with resentment, etc.? You know, I think it really varies by person and by age. You know, for me, using humor is both a way that I can kind of change the conversation in a way that doesn't put someone else on the defensive and that kind of helps kind of release whatever it is that I feel. But it really does vary by the person, by the circumstances. Is it deliberate? Is it not deliberate? And by age. So, for example, I know a child who is non-binary and another child actually, I'm thinking of who's transgender. And when they were, you know, first grade or something, the teacher would consistently ask them to divide into two groups, male and female. Well, that kind of put the non-binary kid into a bind. And so if they tried to join the female line or the male line, either way, it felt bad to them and the kids would like, what are you doing here? Right? And so eventually, that child just withdrew and didn't want to go to school anymore, withdrew from socially and academically. And so the impact varies, you know, certainly by age and by kind of personality and circumstance and kind of what else may be going on in their lives as well. Because a lot of people have multiple identities and if you're dealing with racism and ableism, in addition to homophobia, transphobia, it can really wear you down. Right.  Yes. But one who has been dealing with this for most of your life, I assume. How's it going for you around this kind of thing? I think it, again, is very situational. I go on panels and I give speeches to kind of give people an opportunity to like ask me their kind of rude insensitive questions so that when they go back and talk to their loved ones, they have already gotten that out of their system with me and they don't need to make their loved ones uncomfortable because it always hurts more when it's from someone close to you. I can usually handle being misgendered by strangers, but I will make fun of them to my friends probably. You'll find an outlet. However, when a family member misgenders me, especially repeatedly, I do tend to withdraw. It's hard for me. It does feel pretty personal when someone's known me for a while. Even if I know that they are trying, it is hard, especially without corrections. But I think humor is a good outlet for these things generally and it feels better. On the subject of allyship, you had mentioned earlier, knowing one of your answers, that correcting somebody else would be an important thing for people to do. You get misgendered by somebody else. I, as your friend or somebody else who's there, you would appreciate it if I would step in in that situation. How often do you find, as you're moving through your lives, that that is happening and how important in fact is that for people to bear in mind, again, from the perspective of those of us who wish to be allies? I think it happens pretty frequently that strangers misgender me, definitely. Recently, actually on New Year's Day, I was out for dinner with my girlfriend and the waitress kept calling us ladies and she was like, next time she says that, do you want me to say that you're not a woman? I'm like, yes, please. Because we're having a nice dinner. We're paying for it. I would like the experience of not being misgendered. I really do appreciate being asked because every now and then I'm like, you know what, maybe not. I don't feel really safe right now. I'm getting weird vibes. I don't want this person to know I'm trans. But I do appreciate being asked and it does make me feel better. It gets really exhausting correcting people and I don't know how they'll respond and sometimes they can respond with hostility and even if they don't, it's tiring. It's nice when someone else is like, hey, I can do this for a second. You don't have to do this right now. Yeah. I think that it's a really important point to be respectful of whether the person wants you to step in when it is about you personally, individually. So there's that kind of situation and then there's the situation where people are making assumptions or making homophobic or transphobic comments or jokes and those kinds of things. And in those situations, I think that it is really helpful for someone else to speak up because I know, I mean, it's like I've certainly had the experiences like there's Valerie speaking up again. It's really helpful when an ally will speak up just as we hope that we would do whether it's racism or anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, anything else. Right. Our time is running short, so I do want to make sure that there's nothing that we have not mentioned that we should have on the subjects of proper what we'll call etiquette and right way to engage and also allyship, anything that we that's important to note. I think one thing that is important is I see a lot of people like talking about how they are accepting to all, which is a great idea in theory, but you cannot be accepting to oppressors and also inviting the people they oppress into that space. I need people, I need allies to be very active in their allyship and that means like not inviting me to a party that you're also inviting transphobic people to or stuff like that because you are not creating a safe environment for everyone if you are allowing people like that into the space. Right. There are not always very fine people on all sides. I think that's true, whether it's the people you have invited and also the programming. If you are inviting us to program on special education, for example, or any topic, it would really be nice if the speaker, the presenters are not homophobic, transphobic people. Or if you're having a book series or a film series that they are inclusive. So there are just some basic ways to create that welcoming environment by being actively inclusive or at a minimum avoiding the presence of homophobia and transphobia. Well said. I thank you very much as always for being here and we thank you for being here. I'm James Milan. This is the ABCs of LBGTQ+. We thank you for joining us as I mentioned and we'll see you next time.


This paper presents a comprehensive data-driven modeling experiment evaluating multiple techniques including neural networks, genetic programming, evolutionary polynomial regression, support vector machines, M5 model trees, and k-nearest neighbors. It also proposes five datasets from Canada and Europe for use in the modeling experiment and discusses the results and analysis of the experiment. This article was authored by A. L. Shorbegee, G. Corso, S. Renevasulu, and others.