Lesson 118: Variational loop sketchpads
Focus
Prefer falsifiable hypotheses (shot count, fidelity floor) over buzzword proofs-of-concepts. Token Variational loop sketchpads:118 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
- Thread: Variational loop sketchpads · drill v8 · spin
215381. - 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
QEC / FT literacy stub
- Code family **color**
- Distance `d ≈ 6` pedagogical anchor
- Resource overhead note `routing budget X29`
Drill: articulate what remains classical when decoding syndromes for lesson 118.
Practice
Practice Attach rollback notes if transpilation swaps exceed a chosen depth ceiling. — 118 Bump literals mindset by 21.