Minor wording tweaks and move README template to the top.

README.md

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 # Resources for releasing research code in Machine Learning
 
+This repository contains resources for those wanting to publish a high impact ML research repository. 
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+## README.md template
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+We provide a [README.md template](templates/README.md) for releasing ML research repositories.  
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 ## ML Code Completeness Checklist
 
-We introduce the ML Code Completeness Checklist to:
+Goals of the ML Code Completeness Checklist:
 - facilitate reproducibility
 - make it easier for others build upon research code 
 
-For background and reasoning behind the checklist items please refer to our [medium post](https://medium.com/paperswithcode/). We also provide the [data](notebooks/code_checklist-neurips2019.csv) and [notebook](notebooks/code_checklist-analysis.Rmd) to reproduce this analysis from the medium post. 
+We find that repositories that follow all of the checklist items get many more github stars (on median 200 more, and on average 2500 more). 
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+For more details behind the checklist items please refer to our [medium post](https://medium.com/paperswithcode/). We also provide the [data](notebooks/code_checklist-neurips2019.csv) and [notebook](notebooks/code_checklist-analysis.Rmd) to reproduce this analysis from the medium post. 
 
 The checklist is made to be as general as possible. It consists of 5 items:
 
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 ## Awesome resources for releasing research code
 
-### README.md templates
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-1. [Our README.md template](templates/README.md)
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 ### Hosting pretrained models files
 
 1. [GitHub Releases](https://help.github.com/en/github/administering-a-repository/managing-releases-in-a-repository) - versioning, 2GB file limit, free bandwidth