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This changes the home studio rebuild

Experiment #150 · closed · published 6/18/2026, 10:59:00 AM

What happened

Creative features

  • hookTypeclaim
  • lengthBucket1_4m
  • thumbnailArchetypebefore_after
  • publishSlotweekday_am
  • formatshorts
  • topicCluster6

Confounds the baseline knew

  • Followers at publish23,487
  • Days since previous post1.8
  • Channel age at publish (days)209
  • Local publish time6/18/2026, 10:59:00 AM

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)

67

Baseline expected

120

Residual reward

-0.97σ

raw -0.97σ · residual sd 0.599 log-views

Checkpoints

CheckpointViewsWatch time (min)CommentsLikesFollower delta
168h (close)673,518030
24h371,935020
72h542,814030

What changed in the posterior

  • Post missed its baseline by 0.97σ. Moved: topic_cluster:topic_6 -0.022, thumbnail_archetype:before_after -0.013, format:shorts -0.012.

    • topic_6-0.417-0.439 Δ-0.022±0.30
    • before_after0.1100.097 Δ-0.013±0.28
    • shorts-0.039-0.051 Δ-0.012±0.26
    • claim-0.218-0.229 Δ-0.011±0.26
    • weekday_am-0.128-0.137 Δ-0.009±0.25
    • 1_4m0.0680.061 Δ-0.008±0.25
    • topic_70.2050.212 Δ+0.007±0.28
    • topic_5-0.054-0.050 Δ+0.004±0.29
    • object_hero-0.273-0.270 Δ+0.004±0.26
    • question0.1420.145 Δ+0.003±0.27
    • text_dominant0.0620.065 Δ+0.003±0.25
    • topic_2-0.144-0.141 Δ+0.003±0.26
    • weekday_pm-0.043-0.040 Δ+0.003±0.24
    • story_cold_open0.2460.249 Δ+0.003±0.26
    • interview0.2270.230 Δ+0.003±0.25
    • tutorial0.0140.017 Δ+0.003±0.25
    • weekday_late-0.208-0.206 Δ+0.002±0.28
    • topic_40.2520.254 Δ+0.002±0.26
    • face_reaction0.0790.080 Δ+0.002±0.25
    • 20m_plus-0.091-0.089 Δ+0.002±0.27
    • topic_1-0.093-0.092 Δ+0.002±0.25
    • topic_30.2660.268 Δ+0.001±0.26
    • list-0.020-0.019 Δ+0.001±0.28
    • 10_20m0.0430.045 Δ+0.001±0.25
    • topic_0-0.040-0.041 Δ-0.001±0.25
    • weekend_am0.1060.105 Δ-0.001±0.29
    • 4_10m-0.095-0.094 Δ+0.001±0.26
    • commentary-0.065-0.064 Δ+0.001±0.27
    • none-0.001-0.001 Δ+0.001±0.27
    • weekend_pm0.2500.250 Δ+0.001±0.27
    • demo_first-0.079-0.079 Δ+0.000±0.26
    • vlog-0.142-0.142 Δ-0.000±0.26
    • number_list-0.100-0.100 Δ-0.000±0.25
    • under_60s0.0500.049 Δ-0.000±0.26
    • contrarian-0.016-0.015 Δ+0.000±0.27
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