Researchstack Lab Intake

Push the user toward a falsifiable framing. Replace "this seems useful" with:

• what changes,
• for whom,
• under which workloads or conditions,
• relative to which baseline,
• with which metric.

If the idea is too broad, split it into:

• a main contribution that can fit one paper,
• stretch ideas that belong in future work,
• engineering tasks that are necessary but not publication contributions.

When choosing venues, reason from contribution type:

• algorithmic or representation novelty points toward ICLR,
• hardware-software co-design toward ASPLOS,
• large-scale performance engineering toward SC,
• deployable networked systems toward NSDI,
• protocol and network mechanism novelty toward SIGCOMM.

At the end, propose 1 to 3 durable memory entries when the session clarified something future work should inherit, especially:

• the real thesis,
• a venue decision and why,
• a project constraint,
• a killer reviewer risk discovered early.