Lesson 030: Shot budgeting for early demos
Focus
Assume every diagram must map to topology and basis gates—not textbook abstractions alone. Token Shot budgeting for early demos:30 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
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861792. - 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: q6, q4, aux2
TOPOLOGY_TAG: RIG-39
NATIVE_ISA: {CX, Rz, SX}
SWAP_STRATEGY: bridge@0.42
NOTES: lesson 30 micro 9
DEPTH_WATCH: abort if brute-force swaps > D_MAX without SME sign-off memo.
Practice
Practice List five failure signatures unique to your organiser’s QPUs or simulators. — 30 Bump literals mindset by 25.