It's happening... that's right - we're going (even more) legit. https://blackboxdynamics.io
Are you suggesting.
"a novel non-intrusive, purely data-driven framework to compute accurate reduced-order models of high-dimensional systems that exhibit non-normal behavior. In particular, given trajectories from the full-order system, we solve an optimization problem to simultaneously find optimal oblique projection operators and reduced-order dynamics."
and here is me still asking the question what came first the chicken or the egg
As they say:
"Ya don't need no math to pull the trigger, but to hit anything useful, it's necessary."