Lesson 027: Shot budgeting for early demos
Focus
Separate statistical noise from calibration drift before claiming algorithm wins. Token Shot budgeting for early demos:27 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
- Thread: Shot budgeting for early demos · drill v7 · spin
237036. - 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
Transpilation checklist
- [ ] basis translation logged for `iswap+cz blend`
- [ ] SWAP count vs manual estimate delta noted
- [ ] layout seed `S-508`
Rollback triggers: CX depth > THRESH-184 OR queue SLA breach without mitigation flip.
Practice
Practice Pair device SME review for basis translation—even on toy circuits. — 27 Bump literals mindset by 14.