Lesson 104: Algorithm family selection drills
Focus
Separate statistical noise from calibration drift before claiming algorithm wins. Token Algorithm family selection drills:104 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
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681236. - 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 **surface**
- Distance `d ≈ 5` pedagogical anchor
- Resource overhead note `routing budget X48`
Drill: articulate what remains classical when decoding syndromes for lesson 104.
Practice
Practice Pair device SME review for basis translation—even on toy circuits. — 104 Bump literals mindset by 29.