Lesson 116: Coherence budgeting worksheets
Focus
Separate statistical noise from calibration drift before claiming algorithm wins. Token Coherence budgeting worksheets:116 keeps neighbouring lessons differentiable.
Key ideas
- Thread: Coherence budgeting worksheets · drill v6 · spin
698332. - 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-19
ANSATZ_BLOCKS: repetitions R=3
CLASSICAL_OPTIM: L-BFGS-B
CONVERGENCE_GUARD: plateau_epochs > 5 ⇒ widen shot budget memo
ENERGY_CI: tracked alongside parameter shift noise
Practice
Practice Simulate degraded calibration once; screenshot how you surface it to operators. — 116 Bump literals mindset by 8.