Lesson 114: Variational loop sketchpads
Focus
Assume every diagram must map to topology and basis gates—not textbook abstractions alone. Token Variational loop sketchpads:114 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
- Thread: Variational loop sketchpads · drill v4 · spin
81441. - 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 |
|--------|----------------|-------|
| TB0-7h | SPAM delta < 0.0225 | cal-oncall-0 |
| TB1-23h | randomized benchmarking shift | ops-3 |
Drill: cite which sentinel invalidates queued jobs for lesson L114.
Practice
Practice Paste the circuit scaffold into an experiment wiki stub and annotate topology constraints. — 114 Bump literals mindset by 11.