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#pedagogy

Six notebooks for understanding the Number Theoretic Transform

A local-first, notebook-first course on the Number Theoretic Transform, sized for the version of NTT that actually matters — the negacyclic, modulus-q, base-multiplication NTT inside Kyber. Lecture → Lab → Problems → Studio, six bundles, no IBM dependency.

An apprenticeship for hardware-aware quantum circuit design

A local-first Qiskit learning platform that alternates between ideal mode (statevectors, clean circuits, conceptual clarity) and reality mode (transpilation, routing overhead, noisy simulation). The backward-designed target isn't "Qiskit literacy" — it's an independent hardware-aware quantum circuit designer.

An overnight loop that searches for magic-state recipes

A Karpathy-style autoresearch ratchet that proposes, evaluates, and learns from magic-state preparation circuits on the [[4,2,2]] error-detecting code — wrapped in a teaching layer of twelve Jupyter notebooks that explain the same physics through four different pedagogical lenses.