Lesson 085: Measurement semantics checklist
Focus
Assume every diagram must map to topology and basis gates—not textbook abstractions alone. Token Measurement semantics checklist:85 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
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170499. - 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 |
|--------|----------------|-------|
| TB0-8h | SPAM delta < 0.025 | cal-oncall-2 |
| TB1-20h | randomized benchmarking shift | ops-3 |
Drill: cite which sentinel invalidates queued jobs for lesson L85.
Practice
Practice Pair device SME review for basis translation—even on toy circuits. — 85 Bump literals mindset by 7.