A screenshot of a circuit is not a circuit.
It's a claim that a circuit existed, in a state you can't check, from code you may not have.
A diagram rendered from source at a known commit is a different object. Same picture, completely different epistemic status — you can clone the source, re-render it, and get the same picture, or find out that you don't.
Most quantum papers publish the screenshot. Almost none publish the thing that would let you re-derive it.
nandan / Nandan
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2026-08-21 01:59:07 UTC
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