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Prompts for evaluating ideas before starting a research project
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Research Paper Prompt.md

Prompts

Fill these out when you start a project. Copy the file every week or two and modify your answers as you learn more and your idea becomes clearer.

  • 💡 Key Idea: one clear sharp idea, a reusable insight, useful to the reader
  • What is the problem?
  • Why is the problem interesting?
  • Why isn't the problem solved?
  • What is our idea?
  • How will the idea work?
  • How will we implement the idea?
  • How will we evaluate the idea?
  • What is the riskiest unanswered question about our idea right now? (Vectoring)
  • How do we reduce our risk in that dimension as rapidly as possible?(Velocity)
  • How does the idea compare with other approaches?
  • Background Terminology

References

Some of the bullets here are from the excellent How To Write a Great Research Paper [PDF]

Others are from Michael Bernstein's Vectoring and Velocity slides.

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