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The night I the home studio rebuild

Experiment #156 · closed · published 6/27/2026, 2:44:00 PM

What happened

Creative features

  • hookTypestory_cold_open
  • lengthBucket10_20m
  • thumbnailArchetypeface_reaction
  • publishSlotweekend_pm
  • formattutorial
  • topicCluster4

Confounds the baseline knew

  • Followers at publish24,189
  • Days since previous post1.8
  • Channel age at publish (days)218
  • Local publish time6/27/2026, 2:44:00 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)

167

Baseline expected

178

Residual reward

-0.11σ

raw -0.11σ · residual sd 0.599 log-views

Checkpoints

CheckpointViewsWatch time (min)CommentsLikesFollower delta
168h (close)16752,605180
24h9228,933050
72h13442,084170

What changed in the posterior

  • Post missed its baseline by 0.11σ. Moved: topic_cluster:topic_4 -0.035, publish_slot:weekend_pm -0.024, hook_type:story_cold_open -0.022.

    • topic_40.2030.167 Δ-0.035±0.25
    • weekend_pm0.1760.152 Δ-0.024±0.27
    • story_cold_open0.2650.243 Δ-0.022±0.25
    • face_reaction0.0770.061 Δ-0.016±0.25
    • 10_20m0.0640.050 Δ-0.014±0.25
    • tutorial0.004-0.010 Δ-0.014±0.25
    • weekday_am-0.129-0.119 Δ+0.010±0.25
    • topic_0-0.040-0.031 Δ+0.009±0.25
    • text_dominant0.0560.065 Δ+0.009±0.25
    • vlog-0.063-0.055 Δ+0.008±0.26
    • under_60s0.0650.072 Δ+0.007±0.26
    • topic_6-0.312-0.306 Δ+0.006±0.29
    • 4_10m-0.069-0.063 Δ+0.006±0.26
    • claim-0.154-0.148 Δ+0.005±0.25
    • weekend_am0.1150.120 Δ+0.005±0.28
    • topic_30.2620.268 Δ+0.005±0.26
    • contrarian-0.033-0.029 Δ+0.004±0.26
    • 20m_plus-0.107-0.111 Δ-0.004±0.27
    • weekday_pm-0.056-0.052 Δ+0.004±0.24
    • interview0.1990.203 Δ+0.004±0.25
    • topic_1-0.099-0.096 Δ+0.004±0.25
    • number_list-0.098-0.095 Δ+0.003±0.25
    • topic_5-0.063-0.061 Δ+0.003±0.28
    • object_hero-0.285-0.282 Δ+0.003±0.26
    • topic_2-0.155-0.152 Δ+0.003±0.26
    • question0.1190.121 Δ+0.002±0.27
    • shorts-0.075-0.077 Δ-0.002±0.26
    • demo_first-0.102-0.100 Δ+0.002±0.25
    • 1_4m0.0420.044 Δ+0.002±0.25
    • topic_70.2020.204 Δ+0.001±0.27
    • list-0.024-0.023 Δ+0.001±0.28
    • commentary-0.045-0.046 Δ-0.001±0.26
    • before_after0.0880.088 Δ+0.001±0.28
    • weekday_late-0.109-0.108 Δ+0.001±0.28
    • none0.0610.060 Δ-0.000±0.27
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