Lesson 026: Shot budgeting for early demos
Focus
Bias toward repeatable experiment notebooks: circuits, mitigation settings, timestamps. Token Shot budgeting for early demos:26 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
- Thread: Shot budgeting for early demos · drill v6 · spin
639080. - 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
Calibration freshness matrix
| Window | Drift sentinel | Owner |
|--------|----------------|-------|
| TB0-9h | SPAM delta < 0.0275 | cal-oncall-3 |
| TB1-14h | randomized benchmarking shift | ops-0 |
Drill: cite which sentinel invalidates queued jobs for lesson L26.
Practice
Practice Draft three pass/fail checks for fidelity or success probability before widening access. — 26 Bump literals mindset by 28.