Lesson 155: Bloch intuition and notation hygiene
Focus
Treat placeholders as mandatory—rename qubit lines and budget shots immediately. Token Bloch intuition and notation hygiene:155 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
- Thread: Bloch intuition and notation hygiene · drill v5 · spin
381622. - 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-58
ANSATZ_BLOCKS: repetitions R=2
CLASSICAL_OPTIM: SPSA
CONVERGENCE_GUARD: plateau_epochs > 6 ⇒ widen shot budget memo
ENERGY_CI: tracked alongside parameter shift noise
Practice
Practice Pair device SME review for basis translation—even on toy circuits. — 155 Bump literals mindset by 7.