Lesson 137: Simulator honesty boundaries
Focus
Bias toward repeatable experiment notebooks: circuits, mitigation settings, timestamps. Token Simulator honesty boundaries:137 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
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161548. - 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 `96`
2. Pilot shots `512` expanding to `7338` if variance plateaus
3. Telemetry fields `job_id,device_tz,mitigation_bundle`
4. Stop rule `halt if RB infidelity > 0.002039`
Practice
Practice Pair device SME review for basis translation—even on toy circuits. — 137 Bump literals mindset by 9.