Lesson 137: Cost models for QPUs
Focus
Bias toward repeatable experiment notebooks: circuits, mitigation settings, timestamps. Token Cost models for QPUs:137 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
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863737. - 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 ≈ 4` pedagogical anchor
- Resource overhead note `routing budget X23`
Drill: articulate what remains classical when decoding syndromes for lesson 137.
Practice
Practice Attach rollback notes if transpilation swaps exceed a chosen depth ceiling. — 137 Bump literals mindset by 12.