Its a good guess that the simulator or game engine behind this competetion is TORCS (The Open Racing Car Simulator) [1].
Simulated Car Racing (SCR) [2], is an existing annual AI car racing competition based on TORCS, though without the attractive prizes. It also has a client-server architecture with controls and sensor information sent over UDP using what seem like lisp sexps.
My first impression is that nd-array/matrix manipulation sucks big time in golang, compared to matlab or python/numpy. I'll go further and say it sucks even compared to C++ and vanilla C.
What raised the English-speaking peoples to greatness was not a magical property in their DNA, nor a special richness in their soil, nor yet an advantage in military technology, but their political and legal institutions.
This is no doubt aimed at Jared Diamond's "Guns, Germs, (Geography) & Steel"
If Dean has a superhuman power, then, it’s not the ability to do things perfectly in an instant. It’s the power to prioritize and optimize and deal in orders of magnitude. Put another way, it’s the power to recognize an opportunity to do something pretty well in far less time than it would take to do it perfectly.
Now I get why Kepler was hell bent on trying to fit the orbits of the 5 known planets (at his time) with the 5 platonic solids [1]. This part of Kepler's life is very nicely depicted in Carl Sagan's Cosmos [2]. It seemed interesting when I watched it, but I didn't give it much thought back then.