COM SCI 596
Directed Individual or Tutorial Studies
Tutorial.
Fall 2026: 66 sections. All of them are open. The oldest of these readings was 65 minutes ago.
Grades
Graded S/U, so there is no average to report.
Graded S/U: 192 records over 10 terms.
In the A range
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no letter grades in the record to count
D, F or W
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no letter grades in the record to count
Taken pass/no pass
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this course is graded S/U, not pass/no pass
The registrar's own records: Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
4 of those terms are summer sessions, and summer sessions are counted here.
The table below splits them.
Historical grades for ABARI, OMID, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
No grade history is available for this professor in this course.
By instructor
| Instructor | Predicted GPA | Raw | n | Terms | A range | Workload | Fall 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SUN, YIZHOU reviews ↗ | S/U | 41 S/U | 4 | - | - | Open, 6 seats left | |
| VAN DEN BROECK, GUY reviews ↗ | S/U | 75 S/U | 3 | - | - | Open, 10 seats left | |
| WANG, WEI reviews ↗ | S/U | 30 S/U | 3 | - | - | Open, 3 seats left | |
| WATSON, DANA CAIRNS reviews ↗ | S/U | 33 S/U | 3 | - | - | not teaching it | |
| PENG, NANYUN reviews ↗ | S/U | 13 S/U | 1 | - | - | Open, 9 seats left |
Why Predicted is not the Raw average
“Predicted” is shrunk toward the course average, which is itself shrunk toward the department, so an instructor with a handful of students sits near the course mean rather than topping the list.
Grade records describe outcomes. For what a course is like to take, read student reviews written on dibs below or follow the separate external review link.
Workload and assignments
Work types reported in BruinWalk reviews of this course, across recorded instructors and terms. They may differ from this term's syllabus.
dibs has not read this course’s reviews, so it cannot say what kind of work it sets. That is dibs not having looked. It is not a course without papers or exams, and the reviews linked below are the answer until dibs catches up.
In Falls
Ran in 2 of the last 3 Falls.
From the terms dibs holds, which start in Fall 2021 and exclude summer. A department can run a course in a quarter it never has before.
From the registrar's catalog
Tutorial, to be arranged. Limited to graduate computer science students. Petition forms to request enrollment may be obtained from assistant dean, Graduate Studies. Supervised investigation of advanced technical problems. S/U grading.
Sections in Fall 2026
Seat counts as of : the oldest of these 66 readings. Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.
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Tut 1 Time TBAOpenno grade history
8 seats left. 2 of 10 enrolled high risk
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Tut 2 Time TBAOpenno grade history
10 seats left. 0 of 10 enrolled high risk
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Tut 3 Time TBAOpenno grade history
4 seats left. 6 of 10 enrolled high risk
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Tut 4 Time TBAOpen
Chen, X.
no grade history10 seats left. 0 of 10 enrolled high risk
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Tut 5 Time TBAOpen
Cheng, G.
no grade history10 seats left. 0 of 10 enrolled high risk
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Tut 6 Time TBAOpenno grade history
2 seats left. 8 of 10 enrolled high risk
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Tut 7 Time TBAOpenno grade history
10 seats left. 0 of 10 enrolled high risk
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Tut 8 Time TBAOpenno grade history
9 seats left. 1 of 10 enrolled high risk
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Tut 9 Time TBAOpen
Ding, Y.
no grade history10 seats left. 0 of 10 enrolled high risk
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Tut 10 Time TBAOpenno grade history
10 seats left. 0 of 10 enrolled high risk
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Tut 11 Time TBAOpenno grade history
10 seats left. 0 of 10 enrolled high risk
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Tut 12 Time TBAOpenno grade history
10 seats left. 0 of 10 enrolled high risk
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Tut 13 Time TBAOpenno grade history
9 seats left. 1 of 10 enrolled high risk
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Tut 14 Time TBAOpenno grade history
10 seats left. 0 of 10 enrolled high risk
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Tut 15 Time TBAOpenno grade history
10 seats left. 0 of 10 enrolled high risk
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Tut 16 Time TBAOpenno grade history
9 seats left. 1 of 10 enrolled high risk
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Tut 17 Time TBAOpenno grade history
9 seats left. 1 of 10 enrolled high risk
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Tut 18 Time TBAOpenno grade history
8 seats left. 2 of 10 enrolled high risk
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Tut 19 Time TBAOpenno grade history
10 seats left. 0 of 10 enrolled high risk
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Tut 20 Time TBAOpenno grade history
8 seats left. 2 of 10 enrolled high risk
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Tut 21 Time TBAOpen
Kao, J.C.
no grade history9 seats left. 1 of 10 enrolled high risk
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Tut 22 Time TBAOpen
Kay, A.C.
no grade history10 seats left. 0 of 10 enrolled high risk
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Tut 23 Time TBAOpenno grade history
9 seats left. 1 of 10 enrolled high risk
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Tut 24 Time TBAOpenno grade history
10 seats left. 0 of 10 enrolled high risk
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Tut 25 Time TBAOpen
Kreiss, E.
no grade history10 seats left. 0 of 10 enrolled high risk
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Tut 26 Time TBAOpenno grade history
9 seats left. 1 of 10 enrolled high risk
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Tut 27 Time TBAOpenno grade history
9 seats left. 1 of 10 enrolled high risk
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Tut 28 Time TBAOpen
Ma, J.
no grade history10 seats left. 0 of 10 enrolled high risk
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Tut 29 Time TBAOpenno grade history
8 seats left. 2 of 10 enrolled high risk
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Tut 30 Time TBAOpen
No instructors
no grade history10 seats left. 0 of 10 enrolled high risk
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Tut 31 Time TBAOpenno grade history
9 seats left. 1 of 10 enrolled high risk
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Tut 32 Time TBAOpenno grade history
8 seats left. 2 of 10 enrolled high risk
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Tut 33 Time TBAOpenno grade history
8 seats left. 2 of 10 enrolled high risk
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Tut 34 Time TBAOpenno grade history
10 seats left. 0 of 10 enrolled high risk
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Tut 35 Time TBAOpenno grade history
8 seats left. 2 of 10 enrolled high risk
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Tut 36 Time TBAOpenno grade history
8 seats left. 2 of 10 enrolled high risk
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Tut 37 Time TBAOpenno grade history
10 seats left. 0 of 10 enrolled high risk
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Tut 38 Time TBAOpenno grade history
9 seats left. 1 of 10 enrolled high risk
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Tut 39 Time TBAOpenno grade history
10 seats left. 0 of 10 enrolled high risk
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Tut 40 Time TBAOpenno grade history
10 seats left. 0 of 10 enrolled high risk
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Tut 41 Time TBAOpenno grade history
10 seats left. 0 of 10 enrolled high risk
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Tut 42 Time TBAOpenno grade history
10 seats left. 0 of 10 enrolled high risk
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Tut 43 Time TBAOpenno grade history
10 seats left. 0 of 10 enrolled high risk
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Tut 44 Time TBAOpenno grade history
8 seats left. 2 of 10 enrolled high risk
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Tut 45 Time TBAOpenno grade history
8 seats left. 2 of 10 enrolled high risk
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Tut 46 Time TBAOpenno grade history
10 seats left. 0 of 10 enrolled high risk
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Tut 47 Time TBAOpenno grade history
10 seats left. 0 of 10 enrolled high risk
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Tut 48 Time TBAOpen
Soatto, S.
no grade history10 seats left. 0 of 10 enrolled high risk
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Tut 49 Time TBAOpen
Srivastava, M.B.
no grade history10 seats left. 0 of 10 enrolled high risk
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Tut 50 Time TBAOpenno grade history
10 seats left. 0 of 10 enrolled high risk
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Tut 51 Time TBAOpenno grade history
6 seats left. 4 of 10 enrolled high risk
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Tut 52 Time TBAOpenno grade history
9 seats left. 1 of 10 enrolled high risk
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Tut 53 Time TBAOpen
Tian, Y.
no grade history10 seats left. 0 of 10 enrolled high risk
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Tut 54 Time TBAOpenno grade history
9 seats left. 1 of 10 enrolled high risk
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Tut 55 Time TBAOpenno grade history
10 seats left. 0 of 10 enrolled high risk
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Tut 56 Time TBAOpenno grade history
9 seats left. 1 of 10 enrolled high risk
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Tut 57 Time TBAOpen
Wang, H.
no grade history10 seats left. 0 of 10 enrolled high risk
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Tut 58 Time TBAOpenno grade history
8 seats left. 2 of 10 enrolled high risk
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Tut 59 Time TBAOpenno grade history
10 seats left. 0 of 10 enrolled high risk
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Tut 60 Time TBAOpenno grade history
3 seats left. 7 of 10 enrolled high risk
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Tut 61 Time TBAOpen
Yang, L.
no grade history10 seats left. 0 of 10 enrolled high risk
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Tut 62 Time TBAOpen
Yang, Y.
no grade history10 seats left. 0 of 10 enrolled high risk
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Tut 63 Time TBAOpen
Zamfirescu-Pereira
no grade history10 seats left. 0 of 10 enrolled high risk
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Tut 64 Time TBAOpen
Zaniolo, C.
no grade history10 seats left. 0 of 10 enrolled high risk
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Tut 65 Time TBAOpenno grade history
10 seats left. 0 of 10 enrolled high risk
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Tut 66 Time TBAOpenno grade history
7 seats left. 3 of 10 enrolled high risk
Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 10 and 11 a term over 6 terms, summer excluded, most recently 10 in Fall 2025. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.
From the people who took it
Student reviews
What taking COM SCI 596 was like: the work, the teaching, and what students wish they’d known.
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Seats over time in Fall 2026
How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it. This course runs 66 lectures; the legend under the chart picks one.
A dot is a reading where something moved: the seat count, the status, or the waitlist.
What a flat run means, and where a line starts
Flat between dots means it did not drift, it held and then jumped, and a line starts when dibs first saw that lecture rather than reaching back before it existed. A lecture that has never moved draws a flat line across the whole window, and one with two or three readings draws a line joining them, which is too few to read a trend from.
Tut 1 · Abari, O. · 2 of 10 enrolled
Filled by 2 over about 1 month
Tut 2 · Batista, S. · 0 of 10 enrolled
Unchanged over about 1 month
Both readings say 0 of 10.
Tut 3 · Chang, K. · 6 of 10 enrolled
Filled by 6 over about 1 month
Tut 4 · Chen, X. · 0 of 10 enrolled
Unchanged over about 1 month
Both readings say 0 of 10.
Tut 5 · Cheng, G. · 0 of 10 enrolled
Unchanged over about 1 month
Both readings say 0 of 10.
Tut 6 · Cong, J.J. · 8 of 10 enrolled
Filled by 8 over about 1 month
Tut 7 · Cui, Y. · 0 of 10 enrolled
Unchanged over about 1 month
Both readings say 0 of 10.
Tut 8 · Darwiche, A.Y. · 1 of 10 enrolled
Filled by 1 over about 1 month
0 to 1 enrolled across 3 readings, +1.
Tut 9 · Ding, Y. · 0 of 10 enrolled
Unchanged over about 1 month
Both readings say 0 of 10.
Tut 10 · Duerschmid, T. · 0 of 10 enrolled
Unchanged over about 1 month
Both readings say 0 of 10.
Tut 11 · Eggert, P.R. · 0 of 10 enrolled
Unchanged over about 1 month
Both readings say 0 of 10.
Tut 12 · Ernst, J. · 0 of 10 enrolled
Unchanged over about 1 month
Both readings say 0 of 10.
Tut 13 · Eskin, E. · 1 of 10 enrolled
Filled by 1 over about 1 month
0 to 1 enrolled across 3 readings, +1.
Tut 14 · Gabriel, S. · 0 of 10 enrolled
Unchanged over about 1 month
Both readings say 0 of 10.
Tut 15 · Grover, A. · 0 of 10 enrolled
Unchanged over about 1 month
Both readings say 0 of 10.
Tut 16 · Gu, Q. · 1 of 10 enrolled
Filled by 1 over about 1 month
Tut 17 · Jun, E. · 1 of 10 enrolled
Filled by 1 over about 1 month
0 to 1 enrolled across 3 readings, +1.
Tut 18 · Hsieh, C. · 2 of 10 enrolled
Filled by 2 over about 1 month
Tut 19 · Kadambi, A. · 0 of 10 enrolled
Unchanged over about 1 month
Both readings say 0 of 10.
Tut 20 · Kallas, K. · 2 of 10 enrolled
Filled by 2 over about 1 month
Tut 21 · Kao, J.C. · 1 of 10 enrolled
Filled by 1 over about 1 month
0 to 1 enrolled across 3 readings, +1.
Tut 22 · Kay, A.C. · 0 of 10 enrolled
Unchanged over about 1 month
Both readings say 0 of 10.
Tut 23 · Kim, M. · 1 of 10 enrolled
Filled by 1 over about 1 month
0 to 1 enrolled across 3 readings, +1.
Tut 24 · Kleinrock, L. · 0 of 10 enrolled
Unchanged over about 1 month
Both readings say 0 of 10.
Tut 25 · Kreiss, E. · 0 of 10 enrolled
Unchanged over about 1 month
Both readings say 0 of 10.
Tut 26 · Kumar, S. · 1 of 10 enrolled
Filled by 1 over about 1 month
0 to 1 enrolled across 3 readings, +1.
Tut 27 · Lu, S. · 1 of 10 enrolled
Filled by 1 over about 1 month
0 to 1 enrolled across 3 readings, +1.
Tut 28 · Ma, J. · 0 of 10 enrolled
Unchanged over about 1 month
Both readings say 0 of 10.
Tut 29 · Mirzasoleiman, B. · 2 of 10 enrolled
Filled by 2 over about 1 month
Tut 30 · No instructors · 0 of 10 enrolled
Unchanged over about 1 month
Both readings say 0 of 10.
Tut 31 · Meka, R. · 1 of 10 enrolled
Filled by 1 over about 1 month
0 to 1 enrolled across 3 readings, +1.
Tut 32 · Millstein, T.D. · 2 of 10 enrolled
Filled by 2 over about 1 month
Tut 33 · Ostrovsky, R. · 2 of 10 enrolled
Filled by 2 over about 1 month
Tut 34 · Nachenberg, C.S. · 0 of 10 enrolled
Unchanged over about 1 month
Both readings say 0 of 10.
Tut 35 · Nowatzki, A.J. · 2 of 10 enrolled
Filled by 2 over about 1 month
Tut 36 · Palsberg, J. · 2 of 10 enrolled
Filled by 2 over about 1 month
Tut 37 · Pau, G. · 0 of 10 enrolled
Unchanged over about 1 month
Both readings say 0 of 10.
Tut 38 · Peng, N. · 1 of 10 enrolled
Filled by 1 over about 1 month
Tut 39 · Pimentel, H.J. · 0 of 10 enrolled
Unchanged over about 1 month
Both readings say 0 of 10.
Tut 40 · Potkonjak, M. · 0 of 10 enrolled
Unchanged over about 1 month
Both readings say 0 of 10.
Tut 41 · Ramezani, R. · 0 of 10 enrolled
Unchanged over about 1 month
Both readings say 0 of 10.
Tut 42 · Reinman, G.D. · 0 of 10 enrolled
Unchanged over about 1 month
Both readings say 0 of 10.
Tut 43 · Sahai, A. · 0 of 10 enrolled
Unchanged over about 1 month
Both readings say 0 of 10.
Tut 44 · Sankararaman, S. · 2 of 10 enrolled
Filled by 2 over about 1 month
Tut 45 · Sarrafzadeh, M. · 2 of 10 enrolled
Filled by 2 over about 1 month
Tut 46 · Sherstov, A. · 0 of 10 enrolled
Unchanged over about 1 month
Both readings say 0 of 10.
Tut 47 · Smallberg, D.A. · 0 of 10 enrolled
Unchanged over about 1 month
Both readings say 0 of 10.
Tut 48 · Soatto, S. · 0 of 10 enrolled
Unchanged over about 1 month
Both readings say 0 of 10.
Tut 49 · Srivastava, M.B. · 0 of 10 enrolled
Unchanged over about 1 month
Both readings say 0 of 10.
Tut 50 · Tamir, Y. · 0 of 10 enrolled
Unchanged over about 1 month
Both readings say 0 of 10.
Tut 51 · Sun, Y. · 4 of 10 enrolled
Filled by 4 over about 1 month
Tut 52 · Terzopoulos, D. · 1 of 10 enrolled
Filled by 1 over about 1 month
0 to 1 enrolled across 3 readings, +1.
Tut 53 · Tian, Y. · 0 of 10 enrolled
Same seat count, but the seat count moved and came back over about 1 month
Tut 54 · Tine, B. · 1 of 10 enrolled
Filled by 1 over about 1 month
0 to 1 enrolled across 3 readings, +1.
Tut 55 · Van den Broeck, G. · 0 of 10 enrolled
Unchanged over about 1 month
Both readings say 0 of 10.
Tut 56 · Varghese, G. · 1 of 10 enrolled
Filled by 1 over about 1 month
0 to 1 enrolled across 3 readings, +1.
Tut 57 · Wang, H. · 0 of 10 enrolled
Unchanged over about 1 month
Both readings say 0 of 10.
Tut 58 · Wang, R. · 2 of 10 enrolled
Filled by 2 over about 1 month
Tut 59 · Xu, H. · 0 of 10 enrolled
Unchanged over about 1 month
Both readings say 0 of 10.
Tut 60 · Wang, W. · 7 of 10 enrolled
Filled by 7 over about 1 month
Tut 61 · Yang, L. · 0 of 10 enrolled
Unchanged over about 1 month
Both readings say 0 of 10.
Tut 62 · Yang, Y. · 0 of 10 enrolled
Unchanged over about 1 month
Both readings say 0 of 10.
Tut 63 · Zamfirescu-Pereira · 0 of 10 enrolled
Same seat count, but the status went closed by the department to open and the cap started being published over about 1 month
All 3 readings say 0 enrolled, and the cap started being published.
Tut 64 · Zaniolo, C. · 0 of 10 enrolled
Unchanged over about 1 month
Both readings say 0 of 10.
Tut 65 · Zhang, L. · 0 of 10 enrolled
Unchanged over about 1 month
Both readings say 0 of 10.
Tut 66 · Zhou, B. · 3 of 10 enrolled
Filled by 3 over about 1 month
How readings and alerts work
A reading and an hourly record are different things, and most charts here hold more of the second missing than present. dibs has taken readings of a section since long before it began keeping an hour-by-hour log of when it looked, so the empty stretches are dibs saying it was not keeping that log yet, not that it looked and found nothing. That is the age of the record and not a fault.
Seat counts show the last successful read, not live availability. Refreshes can be delayed by request limits or upstream interruptions. Watched sections receive priority, but an hourly update for every section is not guaranteed.
The registrar can change a seat count between our checks. Alerts depend on dibs detecting an opening and completing delivery; a quiet watch does not prove that no seat opened. Check the registrar before enrolling.