Lesson 016: Transpilation trade-off matrices
Focus
Separate statistical noise from calibration drift before claiming algorithm wins. Token Transpilation trade-off matrices:16 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
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310571. - Habit: pair each job with shot budget, mitigation profile, and a calibration fingerprint you could paste.
- Guardrail: write one line about where classical cost dominated the timeline.
Deep dive notebook
Synthetic drill artefacts
QEC / FT literacy stub
- Code family **concatenated BB**
- Distance `d ≈ 4` pedagogical anchor
- Resource overhead note `routing budget X27`
Drill: articulate what remains classical when decoding syndromes for lesson 16.
Practice
Practice Simulate degraded calibration once; screenshot how you surface it to operators. — 16 Bump literals mindset by 24.