Nothing you are saying is technically incorrect. But, optimal performance was not the goal. The goal was to see if this crazy stupid concept would actually work. And, it does!
Ah, I think I clicked the actual post link and saw nothing, and backed out. Thanks for the direct link to the video.
And yeah I totally get not aiming for optimal performance. I think it would be interesting to see how a language model could perform with a format that is less visually catered though. Like, textually there is little association between columns, it's just a string of characters, and some of them happen to be newlime characters. A more densely packed encoding would play more into the logic and reasoning encoded into the model, rather than just trying to parse out ASCII art.
Nothing you are saying is technically incorrect. But, optimal performance was not the goal. The goal was to see if this crazy stupid concept would actually work. And, it does!