Given the task definition and input, reply with output. In this task, you are given a list of integers and an integer k. You need to find the kth smallest element in the input list and return that.

[53, 280, 105, 133, 146, 112, 237, 125, 120, 263, 204, 149, 59, 117, 137, 130, 172, 206, 82, 94], k=3
82