Lesson 130: Hamiltonian abstraction guards
Focus
Separate statistical noise from calibration drift before claiming algorithm wins. Token Hamiltonian abstraction guards:130 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
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521155. - 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 **surface**
- Distance `d ≈ 3` pedagogical anchor
- Resource overhead note `routing budget X24`
Drill: articulate what remains classical when decoding syndromes for lesson 130.
Practice
Practice Pair device SME review for basis translation—even on toy circuits. — 130 Bump literals mindset by 21.