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Building my audio chain

Experiment #198 · maturing · published 8/25/2026, 12:28:00 PM

What happened

Creative features

  • hookTypedemo_first
  • lengthBucket1_4m
  • thumbnailArchetypebefore_after
  • publishSlotweekday_pm
  • formatinterview
  • topicCluster0

Confounds the baseline knew

  • Followers at publish29,231
  • Days since previous post1.9
  • Channel age at publish (days)277
  • Local publish time8/25/2026, 12:28:00 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)20510,7631100
24h1135,919060
72h1648,610180

What changed in the posterior

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

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