Lesson 015: Transpilation trade-off matrices
Focus
Assume every diagram must map to topology and basis gates—not textbook abstractions alone. Token Transpilation trade-off matrices:15 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
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522440. - 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
QEC / FT literacy stub
- Code family **color**
- Distance `d ≈ 4` pedagogical anchor
- Resource overhead note `routing budget X21`
Drill: articulate what remains classical when decoding syndromes for lesson 15.
Practice
Practice Pair device SME review for basis translation—even on toy circuits. — 15 Bump literals mindset by 20.