Lesson 028: Resource estimation stubs
Focus
Assume every diagram must map to topology and basis gates—not textbook abstractions alone. Token Resource estimation stubs:28 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
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738341. - 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
Calibration freshness matrix
| Window | Drift sentinel | Owner |
|--------|----------------|-------|
| TB0-11h | SPAM delta < 0.0325 | cal-oncall-2 |
| TB1-14h | randomized benchmarking shift | ops-4 |
Drill: cite which sentinel invalidates queued jobs for lesson L28.
Practice
Practice Pair device SME review for basis translation—even on toy circuits. — 28 Bump literals mindset by 36.