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+## August 17th, 2021
+
+### Gael
+
+_Off this week_
+
+### Olivier
+
+- 2 days break was nice :)
+- Continued reviewing/benchmarking pairwise distances + agg #20254
+- Merged [#18010](https://github.com/scikit-learn/scikit-learn/pull/18010): follow-up work needed to fix the estimators in the modules of the [ignore list](https://github.com/scikit-learn/scikit-learn/pull/18010/files#diff-fb7eceec9814052022bd3e482d161cf5d2a8f1b4a4022663e6243329890cb75fR327-R335).
+- Continued review/discussions of Mathis work on the benchmark.
+
+### Mathis
+- `sklearn_benchmarks`
+    - Add warning when validation scores do not match between libraries
+    - Fix some plotting issues (stacked bars, truncated hovers etc.)
+    - Replaced `matplotlib` with Plotly across all reporting
+    - Switched to logarithmic scale
+    - Added comments in reporting notebooks to give some context and explain the benchmarking approaches (HP match vs. HPO)
+    - Wrote docstrings
+    - Refactored code before code review
+    - WIP: run benchmarks on Margaret
+
+### Julien
+
+_Off this week_
+
+### Jérémie
+
+_Off this month_
+
+### Guillaume
+
+_Off this week_
+
+### Loïc
+
+_Off this week_
+
+### Arturo
+
+Was off for long weekend (Friday and Monday)
+
+- Continued working on the MOOC (started Module 6).
+- Worked with [Loïc's notes](https://notes.inria.fr/rgSzYtubR6uSOQIfY9Fpvw#) to find problematic questions and how to improve them ([#432](https://github.com/INRIA/scikit-learn-mooc/issues/432)).
+- Worked on Figures to address [#415](https://github.com/INRIA/scikit-learn-mooc/issues/415) and  [#416](https://github.com/INRIA/scikit-learn-mooc/issues/416) (which addresses [#366](https://github.com/INRIA/scikit-learn-mooc/issues/366))
+- Created PR [#436](https://github.com/INRIA/scikit-learn-mooc/pull/436) and [#437](https://github.com/INRIA/scikit-learn-mooc/pull/437) as a first step to improve the score of Q2 in quiz M5.02
+
+### TODO Next
+
+- Work on Loïc's notes (Olivier)
+- Resume PoC with numba-dppy (Olivier)
+- Create github issues out of forum posts and problematic quizzes (Arturo, Olivier?)
+
+### Other / discussion
+