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5 things the home studio rebuild

Experiment #118 · closed · published 5/4/2026, 12:47:00 PM

What happened

Creative features

  • hookTypenumber_list
  • lengthBucket20m_plus
  • thumbnailArchetypeobject_hero
  • publishSlotweekday_pm
  • formatlist
  • topicCluster7

Confounds the baseline knew

  • Followers at publish20,329
  • Days since previous post0.8
  • Channel age at publish (days)164
  • Local publish time5/4/2026, 12:47:00 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)

84

Baseline expected

150

Residual reward

-0.97σ

raw -0.97σ · residual sd 0.599 log-views

Checkpoints

CheckpointViewsWatch time (min)CommentsLikesFollower delta
168h (close)8444,100040
24h4624,255020
72h6735,280030

What changed in the posterior

  • Post missed its baseline by 0.97σ. Moved: topic_cluster:topic_7 -0.058, format:list -0.043, length_bucket:20m_plus -0.029.

    • topic_70.2370.179 Δ-0.058±0.31
    • list0.0840.041 Δ-0.043±0.30
    • 20m_plus0.1220.093 Δ-0.029±0.29
    • object_hero-0.310-0.338 Δ-0.028±0.28
    • number_list-0.152-0.177 Δ-0.025±0.27
    • before_after0.0650.089 Δ+0.025±0.30
    • topic_6-0.516-0.497 Δ+0.019±0.33
    • weekday_pm-0.074-0.091 Δ-0.017±0.25
    • weekday_late-0.300-0.285 Δ+0.015±0.29
    • weekend_am0.1150.127 Δ+0.013±0.30
    • contrarian-0.032-0.020 Δ+0.012±0.28
    • claim-0.056-0.044 Δ+0.012±0.29
    • shorts0.1640.175 Δ+0.012±0.28
    • commentary-0.172-0.161 Δ+0.011±0.28
    • vlog-0.157-0.147 Δ+0.010±0.27
    • weekday_am-0.116-0.126 Δ-0.010±0.27
    • topic_50.1080.116 Δ+0.008±0.30
    • topic_0-0.075-0.067 Δ+0.008±0.27
    • text_dominant0.0970.104 Δ+0.007±0.26
    • 1_4m-0.023-0.017 Δ+0.007±0.26
    • 4_10m-0.234-0.227 Δ+0.006±0.28
    • weekend_pm0.3880.382 Δ-0.006±0.29
    • under_60s0.1240.130 Δ+0.006±0.28
    • topic_40.1620.168 Δ+0.005±0.27
    • topic_2-0.172-0.167 Δ+0.005±0.28
    • 10_20m0.0240.029 Δ+0.005±0.26
    • topic_1-0.039-0.034 Δ+0.005±0.27
    • none0.1050.101 Δ-0.004±0.28
    • face_reaction0.0560.052 Δ-0.004±0.26
    • interview0.1090.113 Δ+0.004±0.27
    • topic_30.3080.311 Δ+0.003±0.28
    • question0.1080.106 Δ-0.002±0.28
    • tutorial-0.015-0.013 Δ+0.002±0.26
    • story_cold_open0.1690.168 Δ-0.001±0.27
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