Louis Zocchi's guest appearances

Louis Zocchi

Data Skeptic

Jeff Stanton

Jackson Pollock

Randy Olson

Karl Mamer

Susan Gerbic

Peter Backus

Jay Shankar

Zach Seeskin

Nathan Janos

Niki Athanasiadou

Marick Sinay

Thomas Levi

Sharon Hill

Eugene Goostman

Kate Jones-Smith

OwlTail

In this bonus episode, guest Louis Zocchi discusses his background in the gaming industry, specifically, how he became a manufacturer of dice designed to produce statistically uniform outcomes.   During the show Louis mentioned a two part video listeners might enjoy: part 1 and part 2 can both be found on youtube.   Kyle mentioned a robot capable of unnoticably cheating at Rock Paper Scissors / Ro Sham Bo. More details can be found here.   Louis mentioned dice collector Kevin Cook whose website is DiceCollector.com   While we're on the subject of table top role playing games, Kyle recommends these two related podcasts listeners might enjoy:   The Conspiracy Skeptic podcast (on which host Kyle was recently a guest) had a great episode "Dungeons and Dragons - The Devil's Game?" which explores claims of D&amp;Ds alleged ties to skepticism.   Also, Kyle swears there's a great Monster Talk episode discussing claims of a satanic connection to Dungeons and Dragons, but despite mild efforts to locate it, he came up empty. Regardless, listeners of the Data Skeptic Podcast are encouraged to explore the back catalog to try and find the aforementioned episode of this great podcast.   Last but not least, as mentioned in the outro, awesomedice.com did some great independent empirical testing that confirms Game Science dice are much closer to the desired uniform distribution over possible outcomes when compared to one leading manufacturer.

<p>In this bonus episode, guest Louis Zocchi discusses his background in the gaming industry, specifically, how he became a manufacturer of dice designed to produce statistically uniform outcomes.   During the show Louis mentioned a two part video listeners might enjoy: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKhpYJzCcSw" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">part 1</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvLjFBhoFMs" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">part 2</a> can both be found on youtube.   Kyle mentioned a robot capable of unnoticably cheating at Rock Paper Scissors / Ro Sham Bo. More details can be found <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-24803751" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>.   Louis mentioned dice collector Kevin Cook whose website is <a href="http://www.dicecollector.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">DiceCollector.com</a>   While we're on the subject of table top role playing games, Kyle recommends these two related podcasts listeners might enjoy:   The Conspiracy Skeptic podcast (on which host Kyle was recently a guest) had a great episode <a href="http://www.yrad.com/cs/index2013.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">"Dungeons and Dragons - The Devil's Game?"</a> which explores claims of D&amp;Ds alleged ties to skepticism.   Also, Kyle swears there's a great<a href="http://www.skeptic.com/podcasts/monstertalk/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> </a><a href="http://www.skeptic.com/podcasts/monstertalk/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Monster Talk</a><a href="http://www.skeptic.com/podcasts/monstertalk/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> </a>episode discussing claims of a satanic connection to Dungeons and Dragons, but despite mild efforts to locate it, he came up empty. Regardless, listeners of the Data Skeptic Podcast are encouraged to explore the back catalog to try and find the aforementioned episode of this great podcast.   Last but not least, as mentioned in the outro, <a href="http://www.awesomedice.com/blog/353/d20-dice-randomness-test-chessex-vs-gamescience/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">awesomedice.com</a> did some great independent empirical testing that confirms Game Science dice are much closer to the desired uniform distribution over possible outcomes when compared to one leading manufacturer.</p>

Game Science Dice with Louis Zocchi