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.

Example input: [163, 290, 90, 51, 96, 86, 282, 265, 10, 85, 91, 201, 68, 126, 26, 228, 229, 236, 31, 71], k=14
Example output: 201
Example explanation: 201 is the 14th smallest element in the input list.
Q: [175, 30, 11, 227, 144, 89, 93, 107, 103, 283, 100, 33, 186, 12, 75, 287, 206, 98, 87, 78], k=2
A:
12