A few years ago SpringRTS, and in particular the BalancedAnnihilation mod [0] were active and playable. There is also Planetary Annihilation [1] (that I used to play competitively online, a few of the top players are ex-StarCraft II Grand Masters).
I have 300/100mbps down/up fiber in Paris. As important as the bandwidth is the latency. Basically it means I do most of my work SSHed (mosh'ed actually) to a cluster and don't notice I'm working from home or the company's network. Streaming plots or even videos for debugging is seamless.
The second chapter "High-Dimensional Space" talks about the problem of spikey spheres[0] (how most of the mass is near the surface), I made an ipython notebook to illustrate it[1].
I also did topic modeling (LDA) and other experiments on HN, code for fetching all posts and comments, and for topic modeling, can be found here: https://github.com/SnippyHolloW/HN_stats (lein run // look at hn.py)