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Why does the home studio rebuild

Experiment #197 · maturing · published 8/23/2026, 2:10:00 PM

What happened

Creative features

  • hookTypequestion
  • lengthBucket20m_plus
  • thumbnailArchetypeface_reaction
  • publishSlotweekend_pm
  • formatinterview
  • topicCluster0

Confounds the baseline knew

  • Followers at publish29,050
  • Days since previous post1.3
  • Channel age at publish (days)275
  • Local publish time8/23/2026, 2:10:00 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)

Baseline expected

Residual reward

Not matured yet — checkpoints currently at 168h.

Checkpoints

CheckpointViewsWatch time (min)CommentsLikesFollower delta
168h (close)195102,3751100
24h10756,306050
72h15681,900180

What changed in the posterior

Nothing recorded yet — the diff is written when the experiment closes.

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