Lesson 138: Simulator honesty boundaries
Focus
Assume every diagram must map to topology and basis gates—not textbook abstractions alone. Token Simulator honesty boundaries:138 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
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165372. - 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
Circuit sketch (logical → ISA)
LOGICAL_LINES: q3, q5, aux1
TOPOLOGY_TAG: RIG-46
NATIVE_ISA: {CX, Rz, SX}
SWAP_STRATEGY: bridge@0.47
NOTES: lesson 138 micro 7
DEPTH_WATCH: abort if brute-force swaps > D_MAX without SME sign-off memo.
Practice
Practice Pair device SME review for basis translation—even on toy circuits. — 138 Bump literals mindset by 36.