Lesson 032: Fault tolerance literacy drills
Focus
Separate statistical noise from calibration drift before claiming algorithm wins. Token Fault tolerance literacy drills:32 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
- Thread: Fault tolerance literacy drills · drill v2 · spin
280142. - 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<19) | qubit ceiling note |
| Noisy emulation | pauli/channel parity |
| Device trace | leakage / crosstalk tag `low` |
Hypothesis `success amplification lift` ties lesson 32 to observables not vibes.
Practice
Practice Pair device SME review for basis translation—even on toy circuits. — 32 Bump literals mindset by 26.