Lesson 088: Measurement semantics checklist
Focus
Treat placeholders as mandatory—rename qubit lines and budget shots immediately. Token Measurement semantics checklist:88 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
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95097. - 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
Simulator-vs-hardware rollup
| Artefact | Honesty check |
|----------|---------------|
| Exact statevector (n<19) | qubit ceiling note |
| Noisy emulation | pauli/channel parity |
| Device trace | leakage / crosstalk tag `spike` |
Hypothesis `success amplification lift` ties lesson 88 to observables not vibes.
Practice
Practice Simulate degraded calibration once; screenshot how you surface it to operators. — 88 Bump literals mindset by 35.