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The night I the home studio rebuild

Experiment #200 · maturing · published 8/27/2026, 9:38:00 AM

What happened

Creative features

  • hookTypestory_cold_open
  • lengthBucket1_4m
  • thumbnailArchetypeface_reaction
  • publishSlotweekday_am
  • formatshorts
  • topicCluster5

Confounds the baseline knew

  • Followers at publish29,408
  • Days since previous post1.9
  • Channel age at publish (days)279
  • Local publish time8/27/2026, 9:38:00 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)

Baseline expected

Residual reward

Not matured yet — checkpoints currently at 72h.

Checkpoints

CheckpointViewsWatch time (min)CommentsLikesFollower delta
168h (close)20910,9731100
24h1156,035060
72h1678,778180

What changed in the posterior

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

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