meaning - Does "has been nothing short of amazing" mean it is a short time interval?

From this book "Deep Learning and Convolutional Neural Networks for Medical Image Computing"

While the use of deep learning by the medical image processing community trailed that of the computer vision community by a couple of years, the uptake of deep learning in medical research has been nothing short of amazing.

I googled this and found a lot of "Today has been nothing short of amazing"

Does "has been nothing short of amazing" mean it is a short time interval?