Jeremy Glick

Jeremy Glick, son of a port authority worker killed on September 11, is a political activist and powerful debater. These traits are often overshadowed, however, by his technical skills, most famously demonstrated in his reverse-engineering of the behavioral algorithms used by the Bill O'Reillybot.

"The success that I had on the O'Reilly show had to do with just practice and preparation. I taped the shows, and what I did is I took a stopwatch that I used to use for running sprints in high school, and I would see when he has a hostile guest, and I would time how long it takes for him to cut them off."

Glick's findings, eventually published in the IEEE Journal of Robotics, include detailed schematics of the ego-chip amplifier as well as some source code leaked when O'Reilly busted a gasket. O'Reilly is written in unary (base 1) logic, which is unsurprising given that his thoughts are transmitted through a series of grunts.

Uck uck uck uck. Uck uck. Uck uck uck uck uck uck uck uck uck uck uck. —Bill O'Reilly's thoughts on internal surveillance.