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Live rebuild of the home studio rebuild

Experiment #111 · closed · published 4/25/2026, 12:24:00 PM

What happened

Creative features

  • hookTypedemo_first
  • lengthBucket4_10m
  • thumbnailArchetypenone
  • publishSlotweekend_pm
  • formatvlog
  • topicCluster3

Confounds the baseline knew

  • Followers at publish19,748
  • Days since previous post2
  • Channel age at publish (days)155
  • Local publish time4/25/2026, 12:24:00 PM

The residual reward

Raw views mostly measure how big the channel already was. The baseline predicts what this channel “should” have earned given the confounds above; the residual is how the post actually landed relative to that prediction — measured in standard deviations.

Observed (168h)

616

Baseline expected

148

Residual reward

+2.38σ

raw 2.38σ · residual sd 0.599 log-views

Checkpoints

CheckpointViewsWatch time (min)CommentsLikesFollower delta
168h (close)61690,5522311
24h33949,8041171
72h49372,4422251

What changed in the posterior

  • Post beat its baseline by 2.38σ. Moved: publish_slot:weekend_pm +0.080, topic_cluster:topic_3 +0.078, thumbnail_archetype:none +0.067.

    • weekend_pm0.3310.411 Δ+0.080±0.29
    • topic_30.3700.448 Δ+0.078±0.30
    • none0.0270.094 Δ+0.067±0.29
    • vlog-0.216-0.153 Δ+0.063±0.28
    • demo_first-0.117-0.059 Δ+0.058±0.27
    • 4_10m-0.325-0.290 Δ+0.035±0.29
    • topic_0-0.087-0.118 Δ-0.031±0.28
    • 10_20m0.0370.007 Δ-0.030±0.26
    • object_hero-0.311-0.331 Δ-0.020±0.28
    • weekday_pm-0.026-0.045 Δ-0.018±0.26
    • weekday_am-0.112-0.128 Δ-0.017±0.28
    • weekday_late-0.292-0.306 Δ-0.014±0.29
    • contrarian-0.048-0.062 Δ-0.014±0.29
    • under_60s0.1780.191 Δ+0.013±0.29
    • face_reaction0.1060.093 Δ-0.013±0.27
    • list0.0950.082 Δ-0.013±0.30
    • question0.1360.124 Δ-0.012±0.28
    • 20m_plus0.1050.116 Δ+0.011±0.29
    • topic_70.2390.249 Δ+0.010±0.32
    • text_dominant0.1180.109 Δ-0.009±0.26
    • topic_6-0.555-0.564 Δ-0.009±0.33
    • shorts0.1370.128 Δ-0.008±0.28
    • number_list-0.149-0.157 Δ-0.008±0.27
    • topic_40.1810.174 Δ-0.007±0.28
    • tutorial0.005-0.001 Δ-0.007±0.27
    • commentary-0.163-0.170 Δ-0.007±0.28
    • topic_50.1040.099 Δ-0.006±0.30
    • topic_1-0.070-0.076 Δ-0.005±0.28
    • topic_2-0.189-0.191 Δ-0.003±0.28
    • before_after0.0530.056 Δ+0.003±0.31
    • weekend_am0.0920.089 Δ-0.003±0.30
    • story_cold_open0.2490.252 Δ+0.002±0.28
    • claim-0.079-0.077 Δ+0.002±0.29
    • 1_4m-0.002-0.003 Δ-0.001±0.27
    • interview0.1360.135 Δ-0.000±0.27
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