Lesson 013: Transpilation trade-off matrices
Focus
Document classical post-processing: it often dominates wall-clock and interpretability. Token Transpilation trade-off matrices:13 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
- Thread: Transpilation trade-off matrices · drill v3 · spin
471236. - 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: q0, q3, aux1
TOPOLOGY_TAG: RIG-15
NATIVE_ISA: {CX, Rz, RX}
SWAP_STRATEGY: bridge@0.41
NOTES: lesson 13 micro 2
DEPTH_WATCH: abort if brute-force swaps > D_MAX without SME sign-off memo.
Practice
Practice Simulate degraded calibration once; screenshot how you surface it to operators. — 13 Bump literals mindset by 17.