Code is another way to read
Renaissance perspective, quantum philosophy, the Reformation, the things papers don't say — fields I've been curious about but never had time to dig into properly. I've been re-reading them in Python. Packaged into Deep Dive Packs you can run yourself.
Browse the seriesWhat Code & Cogito does is take the questions usually filed under "humanities," "history," "philosophy" — and run them through Python.
How did Renaissance perspective actually become a thing? Is quantum superposition the same shape as Buddhist emptiness? What does 2008 look like on the same chart as the tulip mania?
The answers aren't in the code. But code can sketch the shape of the question more clearly.
That's the work each article goes through. The scripts, the cleaned datasets, the notes that came out of it — those are the Deep Dive Packs listed on this page.
Not textbooks. Closer to working files of an exploration. Left here for anyone curious about the same things.
Series Bundles
The Renaissance, Reborn in Code
12 turning points from Florence to the Enlightenment. Perspective, anatomy, the printing press, the Reformation — translated into Python you can actually run.
Industrial Revolution Meets Data Revolution
Steam engine vs cloud, Taylorism vs Uber, child labor vs AI bias — Python quantifies the same structure across two eras and puts them side by side.
Quantum Mechanics Meets Eastern Philosophy
Uncertainty, superposition, entanglement — placed next to the Dao, sunyata, and Indra's net. Twelve quantum-philosophy pairings, from Copenhagen vs Kyoto School to qubits vs non-duality.
Philosophy for Programmers
Is truth a function? Can "I think therefore I am" be written as .py? 14 philosophical propositions, restated in code.
Series Overview
S1 · The Renaissance, Reborn in Code
12 turning points from Florence to the Enlightenment. Perspective, anatomy, the printing press, the Reformation — translated into Python you can actually run.
Want just one piece? Single-article Deep Dive Packs in this series:
- 01Why Florence Became the Cradle of the RenaissanceSingle pack · $4.99
- 02The Medici Family: A Financial Empire’s Cultural InvestmentSingle pack · $4.99
- 03Da Vinci’s Anatomical RevolutionSingle pack · $4.99
- 04The Magic of Vanishing Points: How Perspective Turned Flat Canvas into Three-Dimensional WorldsSingle pack · $4.99
- 05Humanism — The Birth of Human DignitySingle pack · $4.99
- 06When Ideas Became Copyable: How the Printing Press Ignited the First Information RevolutionSingle pack · $4.99
- 07Reformation — When Authority CrumblesSingle pack · $4.99
- 08Enlightenment — When Reason Becomes the New GodSingle pack · $4.99
- 09Romanticism: When Poets Rebel Against PhilosophersSingle pack · $4.99
- 10The Industrial Revolution: When Machines Changed EverythingSingle pack · $4.99
- 11Darwin’s Evolution: The Final Revolution in Human StatusSingle pack · $4.99
- 12The Ultimate Legacy of the Renaissance: What Did We Inherit After 500 Years?Single pack · $4.99
S2 · Industrial Revolution Meets Data Revolution
Steam engine vs cloud, Taylorism vs Uber, child labor vs AI bias — Python quantifies the same structure across two eras and puts them side by side.
Want just one piece? Single-article Deep Dive Packs in this series:
- 01Steam Engine vs Cloud Computing: Two Cycles of the Energy RevolutionSingle pack · $4.99
- 02Factory Discipline vs Platform Algorithms: The Evolution of ControlSingle pack · $4.99
- 03The Mathematics of Labor Alienation: From Marx to AlgorithmsSingle pack · $4.99
- 04Data Archaeology: Reconstructing the Industrial Revolution with PythonSingle pack · $4.99
- 05Child Labour vs Algorithmic Bias: The Price of ProgressSingle pack · $4.99
S3 · Quantum Mechanics Meets Eastern Philosophy
Uncertainty, superposition, entanglement — placed next to the Dao, sunyata, and Indra's net. Twelve quantum-philosophy pairings, from Copenhagen vs Kyoto School to qubits vs non-duality.
This series is still in the works — singles and a Bundle will appear here when it launches.
S4 · Philosophy for Programmers
Is truth a function? Can "I think therefore I am" be written as .py? 14 philosophical propositions, restated in code.
This series is still in the works — singles and a Bundle will appear here when it launches.
