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I looked into this book before and without solutions it makes it much harder to use for self-study. Maybe LLMs do change that now but I'm not sure I'd trust their output if I were learning the topic

Susanna Epp's Discrete Mathematics With Applications is also a really good option

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The logical skills to evaluate the output of a LLM are the same skills brought to bear reading any book. What makes you trust this textbook then? Textbooks are not infallible.

Good textbooks have gone through expert reviews and multiple iterations of improvement. That can't be said of an LLM answering your personalized questions or the book problem

But why not both?

> Good textbooks have gone through expert reviews and multiple iterations of improvement.

That's an assumption increasingly false, unfortunately. The spirit of collegiality has been beaten back.

Far better to hone logical skills that sift between fact and error than to rely on social reputation. Ironically we're discussing a text designed to do exactly that.

The savvy LLM user already knows to be on the lookout for falsehood, if not bad pedagogy. That's a benefit, not a drawback of LLMs.

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