for a fantastic project proposal, aim to have ideas for how to check most of these boxes.

this is a north star: out of any top conference, only a handful of submissions truly satisfy all these criteria, around top 0.1%

ime, fantastic papers have:
- one clear, crisp idea
- evidence it applies in many settings: sufficient conditions
- limitations: find necessary conditions
- baselines: points of comparison for contributions
- implications: reasons to care
- one somewhat practical application