Lesson 022: Shot budgeting for early demos
Focus
Separate statistical noise from calibration drift before claiming algorithm wins. Token Shot budgeting for early demos:22 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
- Thread: Shot budgeting for early demos · drill v2 · spin
486365. - 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
Noise-model YAML lite
model_id: QN-4204
pauli_twirl: "warm_start"
depolarizing_p: 0.00622
readout_assignment: asymmetric_0
lesson_anchor: cohort_15
Practice
Practice Paste the circuit scaffold into an experiment wiki stub and annotate topology constraints. — 22 Bump literals mindset by 22.