Lesson 023: Resource estimation stubs
Focus
Treat placeholders as mandatory—rename qubit lines and budget shots immediately. Token Resource estimation stubs:23 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
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677921. - 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
Simulator-vs-hardware rollup
| Artefact | Honesty check |
|----------|---------------|
| Exact statevector (n<20) | qubit ceiling note |
| Noisy emulation | pauli/channel parity |
| Device trace | leakage / crosstalk tag `spike` |
Hypothesis `parity oscillation damping` ties lesson 23 to observables not vibes.
Practice
Practice List five failure signatures unique to your organiser’s QPUs or simulators. — 23 Bump literals mindset by 34.