Lesson 133: Simulator honesty boundaries
Focus
Prefer falsifiable hypotheses (shot count, fidelity floor) over buzzword proofs-of-concepts. Token Simulator honesty boundaries:133 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
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172162. - 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
VQE rehearsal card
H_SUBSPACE_TAG: VS-36
ANSATZ_BLOCKS: repetitions R=4
CLASSICAL_OPTIM: COBYLA
CONVERGENCE_GUARD: plateau_epochs > 5 ⇒ widen shot budget memo
ENERGY_CI: tracked alongside parameter shift noise
Practice
Practice Attach rollback notes if transpilation swaps exceed a chosen depth ceiling. — 133 Bump literals mindset by 7.