Lesson 024: Shot budgeting for early demos
Focus
Document classical post-processing: it often dominates wall-clock and interpretability. Token Shot budgeting for early demos:24 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
- Thread: Shot budgeting for early demos · drill v4 · spin
353249. - 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: q2, q6, aux2
TOPOLOGY_TAG: RIG-27
NATIVE_ISA: {CX, Rz, SX}
SWAP_STRATEGY: bridge@0.42
NOTES: lesson 24 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. — 24 Bump literals mindset by 17.