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This changes the home studio rebuild

Experiment #183 · closed · published 8/4/2026, 8:30:00 PM

What happened

Creative features

  • hookTypeclaim
  • lengthBucket1_4m
  • thumbnailArchetypenone
  • publishSlotweekday_late
  • formattutorial
  • topicCluster3

Confounds the baseline knew

  • Followers at publish27,352
  • Days since previous post1.3
  • Channel age at publish (days)256
  • Local publish time8/4/2026, 8:30:00 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)

72

Baseline expected

161

Residual reward

-1.35σ

raw -1.35σ · residual sd 0.599 log-views

Checkpoints

CheckpointViewsWatch time (min)CommentsLikesFollower delta
168h (close)723,780040
24h402,079020
72h583,024030

What changed in the posterior

  • Post missed its baseline by 1.35σ. Moved: topic_cluster:topic_3 -0.046, publish_slot:weekday_late -0.043, thumbnail_archetype:none -0.035.

    • topic_30.2190.173 Δ-0.046±0.25
    • weekday_late-0.152-0.195 Δ-0.043±0.27
    • none0.1180.083 Δ-0.035±0.26
    • claim-0.222-0.255 Δ-0.033±0.24
    • 1_4m0.0540.025 Δ-0.029±0.25
    • tutorial0.0510.027 Δ-0.024±0.24
    • question0.2250.240 Δ+0.015±0.25
    • weekend_pm0.1970.211 Δ+0.015±0.26
    • 4_10m-0.108-0.095 Δ+0.013±0.25
    • object_hero-0.275-0.263 Δ+0.012±0.26
    • shorts-0.033-0.021 Δ+0.011±0.25
    • weekday_am-0.131-0.121 Δ+0.011±0.24
    • face_reaction0.0770.087 Δ+0.009±0.24
    • 20m_plus-0.051-0.041 Δ+0.009±0.26
    • topic_1-0.052-0.043 Δ+0.008±0.24
    • contrarian-0.009-0.001 Δ+0.008±0.25
    • topic_70.1650.172 Δ+0.007±0.26
    • topic_0-0.099-0.092 Δ+0.007±0.24
    • topic_2-0.187-0.180 Δ+0.007±0.25
    • weekend_am0.1420.149 Δ+0.007±0.28
    • vlog-0.077-0.071 Δ+0.006±0.25
    • text_dominant0.0430.049 Δ+0.006±0.24
    • demo_first-0.049-0.045 Δ+0.004±0.25
    • interview0.0920.089 Δ-0.003±0.24
    • topic_6-0.233-0.230 Δ+0.003±0.27
    • number_list-0.109-0.111 Δ-0.003±0.25
    • topic_50.0500.053 Δ+0.003±0.26
    • 10_20m0.0290.027 Δ-0.002±0.25
    • weekday_pm-0.034-0.032 Δ+0.002±0.24
    • commentary0.0290.030 Δ+0.002±0.25
    • topic_40.1590.161 Δ+0.001±0.25
    • list-0.041-0.042 Δ-0.001±0.27
    • story_cold_open0.1860.186 Δ-0.001±0.25
    • before_after0.0580.058 Δ-0.001±0.27
    • under_60s0.0980.098 Δ+0.000±0.25
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