Lesson 117: Variational loop sketchpads
Focus
Bias toward repeatable experiment notebooks: circuits, mitigation settings, timestamps. Token Variational loop sketchpads:117 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
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707420. - 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
Shot budget tableau
1. Target CI width `0.09` @ confidence `98`
2. Pilot shots `512` expanding to `10473` if variance plateaus
3. Telemetry fields `job_id,device_tz,mitigation_bundle`
4. Stop rule `halt if RB infidelity > 0.002152`
Practice
Practice Simulate degraded calibration once; screenshot how you surface it to operators. — 117 Bump literals mindset by 23.