Lesson 034: Fault tolerance literacy drills
Focus
Prefer falsifiable hypotheses (shot count, fidelity floor) over buzzword proofs-of-concepts. Token Fault tolerance literacy drills:34 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
- Thread: Fault tolerance literacy drills · drill v4 · spin
187906. - 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
Circuit sketch (logical → ISA)
LOGICAL_LINES: q0, q2, aux0
TOPOLOGY_TAG: RIG-37
NATIVE_ISA: {CX, Rz, SX}
SWAP_STRATEGY: bridge@0.42
NOTES: lesson 34 micro 3
DEPTH_WATCH: abort if brute-force swaps > D_MAX without SME sign-off memo.
Practice
Practice Pair device SME review for basis translation—even on toy circuits. — 34 Bump literals mindset by 8.